In this episode we will look at one of English literature’s greatest names, the Romantic Poet, Lord Byron. 

It is claimed outside of the U.K. he is the second most read British author behind Shakespeare.

We first mentioned Byron in our second episode, Science Fiction Satan, where we quoted contemporary poet Robert Southey who dubbed Byron and his good friend Percy Shelley as ‘The Satanic School’. Southey claimed their work was, ‘characterised by a Satanic spirit of pride and audacious impiety.’

Add to Southey’s glowing endorsement, there is of course the more famous quote about Byron from Lady Caroline Lamb who called him, ‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know.’

Then there’s his work, poems and plays about the apocalypse, angels of death, vampires, defying the gods, a tribute to Dante’s inferno, Lucifer and St Peter litigating over a King of England at the very gates of Heaven, an ode to Napoleon, likening him to our favourite disrupter, the witch of Endor from first Samuel, the devil’s drive or the story of Cain told from the point of view of murderous Cain himself.

After all of that, how could I resist doing an episode about this man? 

There are cameo guest appearances by The Young and the Restless, Forrest Gump, Joel Olsteen, Alexander the Great, William the Conqueror, John ‘Foul Weather Jack’ Byron, Don Juan, Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, John ‘Captain Mad Jack’ Byron, Marchioness of Carmarthen, Amelia Osborne, Catherine Gordon, George Gordon Byron, William Chaworth, Harrow Vs Eton Cricket match, Trinity College at Cambridge, William Fletcher, Hellespont, Greece, Dardanelles, Swimming World Magazine, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Clara Claremont, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Switzerland, Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, Elvis, John Polidore, The Vampire, Bram Stoker, Dracula, John Milton, Darth Vader, Wolverine, The Phantom of the Opera, Venice, Ottomans, Thomas Moore,

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