Dr. Kate Lister

He just absolutely goes to town and rips them to shreds.

He just goes on the offensive.

We've all been there.

We've all been there.

Right?

But you're not supposed to respond to criticism.

You're supposed to be dignified and rise above it.

And he publishes this entire collection of just basically going, yeah, well, you're all dicks and idiots and I'm a genius.

That's pretty much what he does.

And then he swans off to Europe.

But it's there that he writes his big hit and it's called Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

And it's about a young man who goes to Greece and to Turkey and

and explores and experiences emotional awakening and it's all erotic.

And funnily enough, people thought that that might have been semi-autobiographical.

So the world just goes nuts for this.

It was called Byronomania at the time.

And this collection of, it sounds so strange now, a collection of poems would do that because I don't remember the last time a collection of poems would do that.

But his does.

It's like a rock star dropping an album that everybody can't stop talking about.

they're like i can't believe what this guy's getting up to or is this are these people who share his ideas of sort of free love and living in a different way well when you read child howard's pilgrimage you'll probably be a bit disappointed with it because you come to it thinking it's going to be like some rock and roll memoir of debauchery and excess and it's really like a meditation on the emotional experiences of traveling through europe you're like where