Byron
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Byron is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 20, 2023 and July 05, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as ""poetry which I’m unable to distinguish from that of my favorite poets (Byron / Pope / Tennyson)""; “But Byron ? After all, it’s been a century”; “But Byron makes the story, well, Byronic”. It most often appears alongside 1812, 2020 election, 2020 primary.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: February 20, 2023
- Last seen: July 05, 2024
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
AI can write poetry which I’m unable to distinguish from that of my favorite poets (Byron / Pope / Tennyson ): 70%
In 1812 a youth, now back in Britain From his Grand Tour along the Mare Nostrum, Entranced the social set with verse he’d written, And rumors swirled around him; from this rostrum, His mad, bad, dangerous ways left maidens smitten, And each wife craved the days when Fate had tossed her him: A man, without a tail, and yet a siren — The man, of course, was one George Gordon Byron.
Inline links: Grand Tour, mad, bad, dangerous ways
The work, in mockery, is dedicated To Robert Southey, who betrayed his morals (In Byron’s view) at once when he created His odes to George the Third — for copious laurels. His former liberalism denigrated, He and Lord Byron soon began their quarrels, For Byron hated men (or so he prodded) Who sold their independence to be lauded.
Inline links: Robert Southey
For Byron, too, had gone on his adventures (And, unlike Juan, at his own direction); His sexcapades in full would make your dentures Fall out; and he, to end the Greeks’ subjection, Took up his arms and perished. Your indentures To safety leave you with a fine objection: “It’s risky!” Quite — and yet, if you with doubt look On this, I’ll leave you with Lord Byron’s outlook: