<blockquote>It's not uncommon for young 18th/19th century Englishmen, fresh out of Cambridge, to go on a tour of the continent. It is pretty unusual for one of them to eventually get an epic poem out of the experience.
Of course, Lord Byron got a lot more out of his travels than poetry alone (if you know what I mean), but what his buddy John Cam Hobhouse got out of it was another matter...</blockquote>
➤ notes:
<blockquote>I figured there was already a large body of fanfic about Byron and the Shelleys (and occasionally Polidori), so I decided to write something set a bit earlier--1809, to be precise. Byron had yet to "wake up and find himself famous", but the work that really sparked his fame--Childe Harold's Pilgrimage--was begun while he was on this particular epic road trip.</blockquote>
➤ one of the tags is "byron being byron" and...yup
