A wildly successful poet, notorious lover, politcal radical, wit and foreign adventurer, Byron was a figure who defined the romantic spirit of the early19 th Century in the most reckless and brazen terms.

• 他是一夜成名的诗人，也是恶名昭彰的情人，他是激进派份子，也是爱好异国冶游的冒险份子。