SO WE’LL GO NO MORE A ROVING
By George Gordon, Lord Byron

So, we'll go no more a roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.

For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest.

Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a roving
By the light of the moon.

#LordByron @beatnikprof

Note: In the #DudleyMoore and the Musical #Dalek episode of #TheMuppetShow, #Gonzo does a bit wherein he attempts to defuse a bomb while reciting the works of #PercyByssheShelley.
Yes, THAT Shelley, friend of #LordByron (defender of the #Luddites) and husband of #MaryShelley (author of the novel #Frankenstein).

Never let it be said that an advanced degree in literature is pointless.
#LabourHistory #PopCulture

Speaking of #Luddites…

In 1812, poet #LordByron told the House of Lords that #framebreakers had reason to be angry: “These men never destroyed their looms till they were become useless, worse than useless; till they were become actual impediments to their exertions in obtaining their daily bread.”

The Destruction of Stocking Frames, etc. Act 1812, made it a capital offense.

Byron’s response was a scathing poem that is, sadly, still on point.

#peopleoverprofit #workersunite

#CallforPapers – BYRON: THE PILGRIM OF ETERNITY
48th International Byron Conference
1–7 July 2024, Greece

200 years after Byron’s death, the International Association of Byron Societies will assemble to honour Byron, discuss his work, assess its place within the #Romantic movement, & explore his afterlife & lasting impact on global #culture

#Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #19thCentury #Romanticism

@litstudies

https://www.messolonghibyronsociety.gr/6887-2/

Max Heinegg’s fourteen-song album of poems set to folk-rock music, “Through Traveler”. #111Words #MaxHeinegg #Music #FolkRock #Poetry #ThroughTraveler #LordByron #ChristinaRossetti #WaltWhitman #RobertHayden #TheodoreRoethke #GwendolynBrooks https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/07/max-heineggs-fourteen-song-album-of.html

The “dgiaour” in James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake” (1939) and Lord Byron’s “Giaour” in Jane Austen’s “Persuasion” (1817). #111Words #JamesJoyce #FinnegansWake #Giaour #LordByron #Turkish #JaneAusten #Persuasion #SirWalterScott https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-dgiaour-in-james-joyces-finnegans.html

CFP – Provocative & Provoking: Fifty Shades of Byron
26–27 April 2024, Newstead Abbey

2024 marks the bicentenary of Lord Byron’s death. This
Byron Society conference will explore Byron’s life, his poems, & his contemporary & current reception worldwide

Deadline: 2 January 2024
#Scottish #British #literature #romanticism #poetry #18thcentury #19thcentury #LordByron #Callforpapers
@litstudies

http://www.thebyronsociety.com/2024-newstead-abbey-byron-conference

#OnThisDay, May 17, 1824, the diaries of Lord Byron are burnt by six of the poet's friends at the office of John Murray in London, sometimes described as "the greatest crime in literary history" (depicted in Byron, 2003)

#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Byron #LordByron #Poetry #History #Histodons @histodons

This is wrong in every conceivable way. For starters, it's ahistorical. #LordByron and innumerable other toffs and poets and such were right there with the #Luddites, demanding labor justice during the #IndustrialRevolution, as #BrianMerchant writes in his outstanding, forthcoming history of the Luddites, *Blood in the Machine*:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/20/love-the-machine/#hate-the-factory

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George Gordon, Lord Byron – “half a Scot by birth, and bred / a whole one” – died #OTD, 19 April 1824

This poem was written in a letter sent to Thomas Moore from Venice in 1817, when Byron was feeling particularly shagged out after Carnevale…

#Scottish #Romanticism #poetry #Byron #LordByron
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The cause lived on though...

Greece won its independence. And Byron was lauded as a hero of Greek independence. Still is.

I think he would've liked that.

#LordByron

thy gnashing tooth
#Photography #DarkPhotography #Occult #Demonology #Poetry #History #Byron #LordByron

Oh, this is excellent.
The philosophical implications of being/becoming a #Vampire. With a serious discussion of decomposition, #LordByron, #Buffy & #Twilight, and pregnancy.

#hiPhiNation #TransformativeExperience
https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chtbl.com/track/28D492/traffic.megaphone.fm/SLT9479744951.mp3?updated=1641581659 via @PodcastAddict

The #TheatreRoyal Drury Lane now owned by #AndrewLloydWebber is the oldest continually used theatre site in London with performers & patrons like David Garrick, #LordByron, John Kemble, Shakespearian actor Edward Kean, Madame Vestris & the original clown Joseph Grimaldi.

#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History

Impressive curl

RT @MorphingArtist@twitter.com

Just when I thought I saw the worst of Byron drawings... Got this from this digitised image I found of the inner cover of Don Juan Cantos I - V from the British Library.

#lordbyron #poetry

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MorphingArtist/status/1619081266095357952

RT @LivUniPress
Byron Journal 50.2 features a re-reading and re-mapping Byron’s Italy by @saglia_dyg with Matthew Ward's article on Lord Byron, Thomas Hood, and the Tides of feeling. Browse online: http://bit.ly/ByronJ502 @byron_society @byron_society @sera_romantic @EPatersonMorgan #LordByron

“Narrowly focusing on a small selection of Scottish poems… has obscured the many references to Macpherson, Burns, Campbell, Scott and others found across Byron’s oeuvre… Placing Byron in an expansive reading context… entails pushing beyond a rigid Scots-English boundary in the pursuit of a philological understanding of Scottish poetry.”
—Daniel Cook, “Byron’s Scottish Poetry”, The Byron Journal 50/1, June 2022
#Scottish #literature #Romanticism #LordByron
@litstudies
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/full/10.3828/bj.2022.5

“Even considering the dissolute, decadent Regency period in which he lived (1788–1824), academics agree that Byron’s sexual attitudes and behaviour were extreme, and conditioned by his parentage and early experiences in Aberdeen”

Byron’s formative years in Aberdeen – did they make him mad, bad and dangerous?

#Scottish #literature #Romanticism #LordByron #Aberdeen
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-times/3371389/byrons-formative-years-in-aberdeen-did-they-make-him-mad-bad-and-dangerous/

We’re a day late (tho’ I’m sure he wouldn’t notice) – happy belated birthday to George Gordon, Lord Byron: “half a Scot by birth, and bred / A whole one”, born 22 Jan 1788

England! thy beauties are tame and domestic
To one who has roved on the mountains afar;
Oh for the crags that are wild and majestic,
The steep-frowning glories of dark Loch na Gair!

#Scottish #literature #Romanticism #LordByron

https://www.bartleby.com/371/33.html

I have not loved the world, nor the world me,—
But let us part fair foes; I do believe,
Though I have found them not, that there may be
Words which are things,—hopes which will not deceive,
And virtues which are merciful.

Happy birthday, #LordByron!