To Mrs Reynolds' Cat

Young Byron

“In 1805 he led a rebellion against the new headmaster, the Reverend Dr George Butler, whom he found affected, ingratiating, overbearing, boastful, pedantic, and socially inadequate. He organised the dragging of Butler’s desk into the middle of the School House where it was set on fire, and composed scurrilous poems about him.

He left having incurred numerous debts, and he took every opportunity, after going up to Trinity College, Cambridge, in October 1805, to live more extravagantly than ever. Cambridge brought out his lordliness: the keeping of dogs being prohibited, he kept a tame bear in a turret at the top of a staircase.”

-Romanticism, Anthology, Third Edition, Blackwell.

I’ve heard Byron also attempted to enrol his bear as a student before he left Cambridge.

4 months ago

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    Fun fact: My mom named her budgie after Byron.

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    That is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.

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    Oh, happy day! It just so happens that I have a copy of the picture he drew!

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    This is as good a time as any to express my undying adoration of Byron.

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