As the famous portrait by Thomas Phillips of Byron in Albanian costumesmakes clear, Byron himself impersonatedhis most famous portic creation ; the exotic, dashingly handsome, dangerous and seductive Byron hero. When visiting Teresa he had ben delighted by the very "magnifique" Albanian dresses as he wrote his mother, and purchased "some" for himself.
Reading the countenance for its animating sentimentrs and passions. Walter Scott and Coleridge were part of a burning Romantic-era romance with Byron, involving not only brother poets, but also women poets, among them Felicia Hemans and Letitia Landon, enthralled by his dark and dazzling celebrity.
Byron was born in London on February 22th, 1788, the son of Captain John "Mad Jack" Byron and his second wife, Catherine Gordon, a Scots heiress. The Captain having squandered hers fortune, the family withdrew to Aberdeen in 1789, and he soon decamped to the Continent. In 1798 the fifth Baron Byron "The wicked Lord" died and Byron unexpectedly inherited his title.
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