
Lord Byron (Radio Edit)
You're Dead to Me
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Child Harold's Pilgrimage
The Grand Tour was a thing that young aristocratic dudes would go to Europe to better themselves. The idea is that it's a sort of cultural education. Byron was pushed further east, he actually went as far as Albania. When he's out there, he's starting to write some poetry. So travel poetry is really a big thing. He's hooked onto the genre of travel poetry but he's also known as a romantic. And that doesn't mean that he buys people flowers before he kisses them.
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