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He was 鈥渕ad, bad, and dangerous to know鈥濃�攐r was he? Lord Byron (1788鈥�1824) spent his career inventing a character, the Byronic hero. In public, he played the role to the hilt鈥攂ut Byron鈥檚 method acting collapsed in his private life. For two centuries, Byron鈥檚 biographers have followed the poet鈥檚 lead by concealing the sides of his character that contradicted the world-historical figure he wished to be. In this groundbreaking new biography, Arden Hegele, who had rare access to personal letters and manuscripts, paints a thoroughly modern portrait of the man behind the mask.

Byron was a bestselling poet, a record-setting swimmer, and a martyr to Greek freedom. But his refusal to break his Byronic character came at a heavy personal price鈥攅specially when he lost control of his reputation. Covering the full span of Byron鈥檚 life and works, Hegele鈥檚 riveting account reconstructs the hidden Byron by restoring what was censored out of his story鈥攆rom the verses he excised to the manuscripts his friends destroyed after his death. The book鈥檚 revelations include important new information about Byron鈥檚 marriage, his lovers of both sexes, and his medical history, as well as new perspectives from the women in his circle.

Authoritative and enthrallingly readable, Hegele鈥檚 book shows us how modern Byron was鈥攏ot only as a bold, brilliant poet, but as an unrelenting curator of himself in an era when social media was print on paper. Byron said he was 鈥渂orn two hundred years too early.鈥� This book puts to the test his prediction that he was living not for his age, but for ours.