8 Mar
2022
8 Mar
'22
6:02 a.m.
"A man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection" --from Macauley's review of Moore's Life of Byron.
This appears as the epigraph to a story by Executrix called Mad Bad & Dangerous to now, on which Avon and Byron are on rather good terms during their single brief meeting.
One of the most famous images of Byron is an 1813 portrait by Westall, BTW.
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