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¡¶ÇÇÖΡ¤¸êµÇ¡¤°ÝÂס·£ºLady Caroline Lamb's infamous comment that Byron was 'mad, bad and danger-ous to know' has, rightly or wrongly, formed the basis of Byron's reputation fornearly 200 years.In this readable and lively introduction to Byron's life and work. Martin Garrettexamines Byron's poetry in the context of his short, eventful life. His work wassensational from the start - and the public association of the author with thehero of poems such as Don Juan and Childe Harold helped to make them thebestsellers of their day.However. Byron's position as the toast of society was eclipsed by public disgrace.not helped by the scandal of the breakdown of his marriage, the birth of a daugh-ter to his half-sister Augusta. and Lady Caroline Lamb who spread rumonrs of hisunnatural practices'. He spent most of the last ten years of his life travelling inEurope. and when he died in 1824 aged thirty-six, his memoirs were burnt byfriends who wished to protect his reputation from more scandal.Fortunately, his personal and poetic' legacysurvives to challenge, outrage and delightposterity, and in this new biography Garrettbrings to life one of the most infamousliterary figures of the nineteenth century.