News at Eleven: The man who has been vilified

as an over-sexed Regency dandy was in fact, with the possible exception of Napoleon, "the most important European in the first half of the 19th century". He was, [Dr. Alan Rawes] Rawes said, "bigger than Shakespeare".

from The Independent: The Big Question: Was Byron a 19th-century giant--or just an early exponent of celebrity hype?

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