Byron - The New Banging Poet

Byron's fame rose really quickly after he published a poem called Child Herald. He was one of the first people to receive fan mail on a mass scale. Women felt this incredible personal connection to him through his poetry. And it's fascinating, because we think of fandom as Bittlemania and whatever. But Byron has like fans, properly committed fans. Do you want to guess what they're called? Byron Maniacs. Hey! Hey, it's right! Hang on! Yeah, it's wife coined the term. So mania is not a new thing. There've been manias before. The Sarah Sivans had a mania, but he is crazy famous. We