Dr. Kate Lister

But pretty much everybody falls in love with this man.

Men, women, it doesn't matter.

He has friends that last throughout his entire lifetime, despite the fact that he treats them really badly.

But everyone is enamored of this person.

He is beautiful.

He is intelligent.

He is deeply emotional.

He's highly creative, but also he's damaged and he needs help.

And I can save him.

And it's just that...

catnip, that tortured artist image.

He was the OG of that.

He does.

He's also a scallywag and behaves really badly to people.

We often forget that in the mix because it's so easy to be bedazzled by him.

But he is writing poetry.

His big hit comes in 1812 when he's been off on his grand tour around Europe, which was basically him going out there for sexual tourism.

But he had been publishing poetry before that.

So he publishes small collections of poems which are relatively well received apart from one or two people that slag it off.

And he gets so upset that he's been badly criticised by one or two people that his next volume of poetry is one just attacking English and Scottish critics.