“When I Roved, a Young Highlander”, illustrated by Currier & Ives, NY

SCENE: Currier & Ives offices, mid/late-19th century

CURRIER: Remember, Lord Byron was mad, bad, & dangerous to know
IVES: Right – I’ll give him a bugle, a mini-kilt, & a shotgun
CURRIER: 👍

5/5

https://www.visitpham.org/objects/263199

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“Like Burns, Byron knew how earthy values crossed social strata. But by Byron’s time, polite society was even more thoroughly committed to grinding down public festivities in fairs, sports and open air gatherings. Byron was a shock for polite, well-educated readers. He horrified his public.”

—Prof Alan Riach on Burns, Byron, & overlapping traditions

4/5

https://www.thenational.scot/news/15987226.aristocratic-lord-byron-shares-ploughman-burns/

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Away, ye gay landscapes, ye gardens of roses!
In you let the minions of luxury rove,
Restore me the rocks where the snowflake reposes,
Though still they are sacred to freedom and love:
Yet, Caledonia, beloved are thy mountains,
Round their white summits though elements war;
Though cataracts foam ’stead of smooth-flowing fountains,
I sigh for the valley of dark Loch na Garr.

—George Gordon, Lord Byron, “Lachin Y Gair”

3/5

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Byron declared that he was “half a Scot by birth, and bred / A whole one”. To what extent should we privilege such a claim? In what ways did Byron engage with a Scottish poetic heritage, if at all?

—Prof Daniel Cook, “Byron’s Scottish Poetry”, The Byron Journal 50/1, 2022
Online via Project MUSE (institutional subscription required)

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2/5

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/105/article/860879

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