The Byronic hero is a variant of the Romantic hero as a type of character, named after the English Romantic poet Lord Byron. Both Byron's life and writings have been considered in different ways to exemplify the type. The Byronic hero first appears in Byron's semi-autobiographical epic narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. The Byronic hero typically exhibits several of the following traits: Arrogant, cunning and able to adapt, cynical, disrespectful of rank and privilege, emotionally conflicted, bipolar, or moody, having a distaste for social institutions and norms, having a troubled past or suffering from an unnamed crime, intelligent and perceptive.