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I think about them constantly. They need a sitcom, I'm begging

#love this #blorbos

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Anyone out there with knowledge of ze French, I'd love to get some help translating this ->

Just got home - found this print a friend found in their attic and mailed it to me????? DEAD - they have no clue what my deal is with this man but sent it without asking questions - guess I've rambled enough about him

I'm not sure what kind of print it is though, since when you go over it with your fingers it leaves a black residue.

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Just got home - found this print a friend found in their attic and mailed it to me????? DEAD - they have no clue what my deal is with this man but sent it without asking questions - guess I've rambled enough about him

I'm not sure what kind of print it is though, since when you go over it with your fingers it leaves a black residue.

#thing looks ancient #anyone have any clue #? #lord byron #romantic poets #geneva squad

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a post in honor of lord byron's 200th death anniversary —

the greeks were very fond of byron, who when he died in 1824 was a military commander and notable influence in their war of independence. as one of the most (if not the most) famous members of the philhellenist movement, byron used his poetic platform to try to remind people of greece's reputation as the source of western traditions in art and culture. the greeks then honored byron by decorating his coffin with a laurel wreath (below). they also erected statues for him, like this one below in athens depicting him being crowned with a laurel wreath (a symbol of greatness, especially in poetry/music [which historically overlapped]) by a female personification of greece. to this day, some statues of byron are annually wreathed in tradition, and the names byron/vyron/vyronas are still used in greece for roads, towns, and people in his honor.

"’Tis sweet to win, no matter how, one’s laurels,

By blood or ink; ’tis sweet to put an end

To strife; ’tis sometimes sweet to have our quarrels,

Particularly with a tiresome friend:

Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels;

Dear is the helpless creature we defend

Against the world; and dear the schoolboy spot

We ne’er forget, though there we are forgot.

But sweeter still than this, than these, than all,

Is first and passionate love — it stands alone,

Like Adam’s recollection of his fall;

The tree of knowledge has been pluck’d — all ’s known —

And life yields nothing further to recall

Worthy of this ambrosial sin, so shown,

No doubt in fable, as the unforgiven

Fire which Prometheus filch’d for us from heaven."

— excerpt from Lord Byron's Don Juan, Canto the First (writ 1818, pub. 1819).

"The mountains look on Marathon –

And Marathon looks on the sea;

And musing there an hour alone,

I dreamed that Greece might still be free;

For standing on the Persians' grave,

I could not deem myself a slave."

— excerpt from Lord Byron's Don Juan, Canto the Third (writ 1819, pub 1821) — this stanza is part of a section often published on its own under the title "The Isles of Greece."

"Byron was at once a romantic dreamer, who wanted life to square up to his illusions, and a satirical realist, who saw what was before him with unusual clarity and found its contradictoriness amusing. The clash between the two Byrons is nowhere more noticeable than in his last writings, done on Cephalonia and at Missolonghi during the months before his death. There we see the Greece he dreams of, and the Greece which, in different ways, destroys him."

— excerpt from Peter Cochran's "Byron's Writings in Greece, 1823-4."

"Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story;

The days of our youth are the days of our glory;

And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two and twenty

Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.

What are garlands and crowns to the brow that is wrinkled?

'Tis but as a dead-flower with May-dew besprinkled.

Then away with all such from the head that is hoary!

What care I for the wreaths that can only give glory!

Oh FAME! - if I e'er took delight in thy praises,

'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases,

Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover,

She thought that I was not unworthy to love her.

There chiefly I sought thee, there only I found thee;

Her glance was the best of the rays that surround thee;

When it sparkled o'er aught that was bright in my story,

I knew it was love, and I felt it was glory."

— Lord Byron's "Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa" (November, 1821). What is illustrated here, and what I try to illustrate all throughout this assortment, is Byron's conflation of love and glory, and the idea that poetry and politics are both ways to deserve and achieve — not fame, but what fame seems to promise — love.

"But 'tis not thus—and 'tis not here

Such thoughts should shake my Soul, nor now,

Where Glory decks the hero's bier,

Or binds his brow.

The Sword, the Banner, and the Field,

Glory and Greece around us see!

The Spartan borne upon his shield

Was not more free.

Awake (not Greece—she is awake!)

Awake, my Spirit! Think through whom

Thy life-blood tracks its parent lake

And then strike home!"

— excerpt from Lord Byron's "On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sxith Year" (1824).

"What are to me those honours and renown

Past or to come, a new-born people's cry

Albeit for such I could despise a crown

Of aught save Laurel, or for such could die;

I am the fool of passion, and a frown

Of thine to me is as an Adder's eye

To the poor bird whose pinion fluttering down

Wafts unto death the breast it bore so high –

Such is this maddening fascination grown –

So strong thy Magic - or so weak am I."

— although the much more popular and published "On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sxith Year" is often believed to be Byron's last poem, the above is likely Byron's actual last poem. Like the former, it wasn't solely written for Greece, but for his page Lukas Chalandritsanos who he was in unrequited love (or lust) with. It is sometimes titled "Last Words on Greece" (named so by his friend and sometimes-editor Hobhouse).

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Small update: I made it, just before it got dark. Got to read some lines before getting drenched.

Tomorrow I'll take y'all on a Château Chillon tour-

And here's a pic of me, absolutely destroyed after living on 9 cereal bars and a can of coke

Enjoy the bicentenary celebrations everyone :)

#byron200 #gonna catch a cold #but worth it #geneva squad #lord byron #lake geneva #romantic poets

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Thought I could go on a trip for the Bicentenary of Lord Byrons death. Currently on a 12h train ride down to Lake Geneva to read some poetry to the mountains 🫡

#wish me luck #already out of snacks #romantic poets #lord byron #romanticism #geneva squad

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if you wrote Byron fanfiction i would read it lmao

I do!!! I have a fanfic series titled Lake Geneva University where all the Romantics & their friends attend an international university & are part of Percy Shelley's writing club. I've uploaded several works on my ao3 account & have some more still pending to publish. I also have an actual historical piece like half written, but I prefer the lack of restraint that comes with writing these historical figures in the modern day, & the imagination required in "translating" them to our world. But really it's a mostly funny series with mild angst/introspection whereas my Jane Eyre fics are really prosey & pretty lol.

Here's my account!

#fanfiction #important #go read those

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Actual footage of Polidori and Byron boating on Lake Geneva

#moments before disaster #john polidori #lord byron #geneva squad #romantic poets

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Been making a few variations of the same thing and am kinda tempted to get it tattooed cuz intrusive thoughts be circling-

#my roman empire #geneva squad my beloved #lord byron #percy bysshe shelley #mary shelley

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aaaaaaaaaaaa the iliad/odyssey as cat memes aaaaaaaaaaaaa

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im on tumblr bc im a romantic this energy doesnt exist on any other platform

#geneva squad #it doesnt get more niche than this #summer 1816 is where its at

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still reading frankenstein and i completely forgot that theres a part where victors wrapping up doing devious deeds on a sparsely inhabited island off the shore of england and he loads all his mad scientist shit into a rowboat and pushes off into the water and then fucking falls asleep with no navigational tools and when he wakes up hes like, adrift with no land in sight and hes like ‘FUCK my creation!!!!!’ even though the monster had absolutely nothing to do with getting him lost in the middle of the fucking english channel and he starts lamenting about how hes going to die and his family is never going to see him again and hes going to go to davey jones locker or whatever because hes been without potable water in a rowboat for like 4 hours and then he sees land and hes like ‘oh thank god im saved!!!’ and he gets to shore and is met with an angry mob who thinks he murdered someone and hes like ‘but where is english hospitality?????’ and theyre like ‘this is ireland you dumb slut’ and as theyre marching him to the magistrate hes like ‘i was still thirsty but did not want to show my weakness……’ like could you even imagine

#more facts about the squad #Percy being a little outcast weirdo and Mary loves him for it

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Thinking about very important things (wondering what Lord Byron’s vocal range was)

#my roman empire

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when you just wanna have your mental breakdown in peace and get drunk with your mate but people are “concerned” and “alarmed” 👀

#my man really needed some help #sad

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🚨 THE GANG ARE BACK TOGETHER 🚨

#YES I LOVE THAT ROOM #internally screaming when i saw them #them #geneva squad

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Currently doing exam prep in the library and was procrastinating between the shelves earlier. Took out a book about Albania opened it in the middle and landed on a page about Lord Byron. What are the chances-

#fate #felt his presence right there #that book had 600+ pages #lord byron

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Friends, new Byron collection dropping soon!

#happy bicentenary <3 #lord byron