Lord Byron - Wikipedia
WEBGeorge Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer. [1] [2] He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, [3] [4] [5] and is regarded as being among the greatest of English poets. [6]
Lord Byron | Biography, Poems, Don Juan, Daughter, & Facts
WEBApr 20, 2024 · Lord Byron, British Romantic poet whose published works and personality captured the imagination of Europe during his lifetime. His greatest poem, Don Juan, is a witty satirical commentary that exposes the hypocrisy …
Lord Byron - Poems, Quotes & Books - Biography
WEBApr 2, 2014 · Lord Byron was one of the leading figures of the Romantic Movement in early 19th century England. The notoriety of his sexual escapades is surpassed only by the beauty and...
Lord Byron (George Gordon) | Poetry Foundation
WEBJan 22, 2012 · The most flamboyant and notorious of the major English Romantic poets, George Gordon, Lord Byron, was likewise the most fashionable poet of the early 1800s. He created an immensely popular Romantic hero—defiant, melancholy, haunted by secret guilt—for which, to many, he seemed the model.
Lord Byron Died 200 Years Ago. He’s Still Worth Reading. - The …
WEBApr 19, 2024 · This week is the 200th anniversary of Lord Byron’s death. The most famous poet of his age (an odd phrase now) died fighting for Greek independence in the marshes of Missolonghi.
Biography of Lord Byron, English Poet and Aristocrat
WEBJun 29, 2019 · Lord Byron is considered to be one of the greatest British writers and poets of his time. He became a leader in the Romantic Period, alongside contemporaries like William Wordsworth, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley .
Lord Byron Was More Than Just Byronic | The New Yorker
WEBFeb 26, 2024 · Lord Byron Was More Than Just Byronic. Two centuries after his death, the works of the great Romantic poet reveal a sensibility whose restless meld of humor and melancholy feels thoroughly...
BBC - History - Lord Byron
WEBLord Byron, c. 1810 © Byron was the ideal of the Romantic poet, gaining notoriety for his scandalous private life and being described by one contemporary as 'mad, bad and dangerous to know'.
Lord Byron - British and Irish Literature - Oxford Bibliographies
WEBSep 20, 2012 · George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (b. 1788–d. 1824), was one of the most important poets of the British romantic period and one of the most prominent public figures in Regency England. His poetry is wide-ranging and accomplished, from lyrics and couplet satires to narrative poems and plays and the masterful satirical epic Don Juan.
Lord Byron - Romantic Poet, Poetry, Works | Britannica
WEBLord Byron - Romantic Poet, Poetry, Works: Byron’s writings are more patently autobiographic than even those of his fellow self-revealing Romantics. Upon close examination, however, the paradox of his complex character can be resolved into understandable elements.
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