"Crede Bryron" or Trust Byron is the motto of the
Lord Byron crest.
I thought that this motto was very fitting for what we have come to find within the play Arcadia. We have come to a conclusion through Bernard and Hannah that our earlier character Septimus Hodge may have hidden a relationship with the famous poet Byron. So, can we trust Bryon; it was through his holding of "The Couch of Eros" that was previously Hodge's that we come to these small conclusions. But I'm jumping ahead.
Lord George Gordon Byron:
Born 1788 to Catherine Gordon and Captain John Byron, he was raised by his mother in Aberdeen, Scotland. Although he had a club foot and a "coarse, often violent mother," he was able to excel in his studies and even played sports with the other young men. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge off and on from October 1805- July 1808. Byron is greatly known for his poetry and model Romantic hero who embodied defiance and melancholy and was always haunted by secret guilt. He is also known for being "the most flamboyant" of the Romantics. It is rumored that he had bi-sexual tendencies though he favored women. Later on in his career, however, Byron turned away from his usual eroticisms to more weightier works such as autobiographical personae experiments and satire and popular verse tales. He is believed to have had an incestuous relationship with his half-sister Augusta. Byron was unique from his contemporaries and he says himself, "I was born for opposition." Byron died from illness after riding in a heavy rain storm; he just so happened to die during a "violent electrical storm."
Although I jumped ahead in the beginning, now that we know a little more about Lord Byron, do you find this possible relationship a little more intriguing? How close of a relationship do you think that Lord Byron and Hodge had? So far it seems as though they shared at one book and that book contained some secrets about sexual interests and troubles. Did Hodge ever write a review for "The Couch of Eros"? or was is possible Lord Byron who took over this request? I'm very interested to see how this relationship plays out!
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