Byron
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) was tall, dark, handsome, and brilliant. He was also born into one of the great aristocratic families of England and inherited the title at age ten. He had everything that one needed to become a great hero of the Romantic Movement including the necessary physical flaw that added to his glamour: he had a club foot. In 1824, he died in the middle of helping to lead the Greek revolution to liberate the nation from Turkish enslavement. His death struck down the most famous Romantic poet of the age at the exact moment of his greatest fame. It was the perfect Romantic end.
