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“Mad, bad and dangerous to know’, Lord Byron is considered the ‘bad boy’ of the Romantic poets. He lived a debauched lifestyle of parties, drinking and promiscuity and was rumoured to have bisexual tendencies. He was born in 1788, and left England to travel in 1816. In Switzerland, he met, and befriended Mary and Percy Shelley. In 1823, he travelled to Greece in support of Greek independence, which highlights his political radicalism. His writing focused on life and death, man and nature. He died in 1824, aged 36 and, despite the English Clergy refusing to bury his body in Westminster Abbey, was deeply mourned in both England and Greece.