Skip to content
TrackPodcasts
artsMar 30, 202414:00pending

Lord Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib"

The Daily Poem

Get every episode summarized

Each time The Daily Poem publishes, we email you a written briefing from the transcript — the topics, who appeared, and any specific claims, with the ad reads skipped.

Email me new episodes

Free for 3 shows. No card needed.

About this episode

English peer and poet George Gordon Byron was one of the bad boys of the Romantic movement and, by some accounts, the first ‘celebrity.’ Like countless celebrities who would come after, he was embroiled in a number of romantic scandals and never accused of being overly pious (to put it Britishly). Nevertheless, he was moved by a number of stories from the Hebrew scriptures–a response that inspired him to pen an entire collection of poetry and one of the best-known similes in English poetry.



This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

No transcript yet

This episode has not been transcribed. Request it and it moves to the front of the queue.

Lord Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib"

The Daily Poem

0:00
14:00

More episodes

More from The Daily Poem

View all episodes →