Welcome back, this week: Darkness – by Lord Byron.

We take a turn into the natural world this week, with Darkness, a poem by Lord Byron. Written in July 1816, when the largest volcanic eruption on record cast darkness across much of north-east America and northern Europe. 

It was known as The Year without Summer. This darkness inspired Byron to tell an apocalyptic story of the last man on earth…

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