Lord Byron--- Restless Romantic --Documentary

[Rakhmetov]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MURpeBujd9M

From Don Juan

But now at thirty years my hair is grey— (I wonder what it will be like at forty?
I thought of a peruke the other day—)
My heart is not much greener ; and, in short, I have squandered my whole summer while ’twas May,
And feel no more the spirit to retort ; I have spent my life, both interest and principal,
And deem not, what I deemed, my soul invincible.

What is the end of Fame ? ’tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:
Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour;
For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their ‘midnight taper’,
To have, when the original is dust,
A name, a wretched picture and worse bust.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/Lord_Byron_in_Albanian_dress.jpg

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Marx reportedly said that "the real difference between Byron and Shelley is this: those who understand them and love them rejoice that Byron died at thirty-six, because if he had lived he would have become a reactionary bourgeois; they grieve that Shelley died at twenty-nine, because he was essentially a revolutionist and he would always have been one of the advanced guard of socialism" (qtd in "Shelley's Socialism" [London: Journeyman Press, 1979], p.9)

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[Rakhmetov]

I know that quote by Marx. I disagree. It's too simplistic.

[Foldered]

I know that quote by Marx. I disagree. It's too simplistic.
While it is simplistic, from what I know, it's accurate. I've taken several Romantic Lit classes, too.

[Rakhmetov]

Do you really believe that Byron would not be aiding the Greek revolutionaries today, that he would not be singing "Tambourgi" with an AK 47 on his arm?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzfC_JVFL9w

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