ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -And a Greek hero to boot! George Gordon Byron (1788-1824), generally known as Lord Byron, was an English peer, politician, and a leading Romantic poet and figure of his day.

Detailed explanation-2: -The statement that Byron was ‘’mad, bad and dangerous to know” comes from Lady Caroline Lamb after their first meeting, when the publication of ‘’Childe Harold” (1812) made him the literary and social lion of London at the age of 24.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lord Byron was a British Romantic poet and satirist whose poetry and personality captured the imagination of Europe. Although made famous by the autobiographical poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812–18)-and his many love affairs-he is perhaps better known today for the satiric realism of Don Juan (1819–24).

Detailed explanation-4: -"Mad, bad, and dangerous to know", a phrase used by Lady Caroline Lamb (1785–1828) to describe her lover Lord Byron. Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (Dead or Alive album), 1986.

Detailed explanation-5: -Byron also inherited a very short and violent temper from his mother. The young Byron would suffer fits of fury, but unlike most angry kids, his tantrums were often eerily noiseless. Such was his “silent rage” that on one occasion, he actually bit so hard into a china saucer, a piece came off in his mouth.