Finding England by Ehling Holger;

Author:Ehling, Holger;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781907973260
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Published: 2014-11-02T00:00:00+00:00

There never was an individual less regretted by his fellowcreatures than this deceased king. What eye has wept for him? What heart has heaved one throb of unmercenary sorrow?… If he ever had a friend – a devoted friend in any rank of life – we protest that the name of him or her never reached us.

Oh, and that was a friendly write-up.

Apart from dubious would-be artists, the regency period also had a superstar: George Gordon Lord Byron, the most popular poet of his time. He was a genuine pop star, breaking the hearts of many a young lass (and lad). He also wrote one of my favourite political poems, about Lord Castlereagh, the minister in charge of the forces who had crushed a peaceful workers’ protest in Manchester in 1819, the ‘Peterloo Massacre’. Castlereagh later committed suicide, and Byron honoured his memory thus:

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