Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Lord Byron loves to make fun of the English upper-class, which is pretty funny when you consider he inherited his uncle's title at age ten and became an English lord. See any parallels with Don Juan yet? (Source.)
Lord Byron never reacted all that well to being criticized. In fact, he published a satirical poem called "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" just to ridicule the critics who dared insult his first volume of poetry. (Source.)
Critics are still split on the way Byron left England in 1816—two years before he published the first parts of Don Juan. Some insist that he was pretty much run out of town because people hated him. (Source.)