The Cambridge Introduction to ByronAuthor of the most influential long poem of its era (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) and the funniest long poem in European literature (Don Juan), Lord Byron was also the literary superstar of Romanticism, whose effect on nineteenth century writers, artists, musicians and politicians but also everyday readers was second to none. His poems seduced and scandalized readers, and his life and legend were correspondingly magnetic, given added force by his early