lord byron

     

George Goron Byron, later Noel, 6th Baron Byron FRS (22 January 1788–19 April 1824) was an English poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Among Lord Byron's best-known works are the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan, although the latter remained incomplete on his death. He is regarded as one of the greatest European poets and remains widely read and influential, both in the English speaking world and beyond. Lord Byron's fame rests not only on his writings but also on his life, which featured extravagant living, numerous love affairs, debts, separation, allegations of homosexuality and marital exploits. He was famously described by Lady Caroline Lamb as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know." Byron served as a regional leader of Italy's revolutionary organization the Carbonari in its struggle against Austria, and later travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died from a fever in Messolonghi.

Trivia about lord byron

  • Coleridge said this poet will "not be remembered at all, except as a wicked lord who... pretended to be ten times more wicked than he was"
  • This lord & poet known for his licentious behavior actually kept a pet bear at Cambridge
  • "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" is this British lord's longest poem other than "Don Juan"
  • Lady Caroline Lamb, a married lover of this lord, called him "mad, bad and dangerous to know"
  • This libidinous lord's Venetian exploits included an 1818 swim from the Lido "right to the end of the Grand Canal"
  • In "Don Juan" he quipped, "The English winter -- ending in July, to recommence in August"
  • Britannica calls Lady Augusta Ada, daughter of this rakish 19th c. poet, "the world's first computer programmer"
  • This romantic poet's name gave us an adjective for the type of hero he created -- a brooding young man
  • "Ah, droop not, my oak!" wrote this lord in "To an Oak at Newstead"
  • English poet who wrote, "She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies"
  • In 1806, while still a teenager, this lord published "Fugitive Pieces", his first volume of poetry
  • "Notwithstanding many hints to the contrary", he said, "I still maintain" Childe Harold "to be a fictitious personage"
  • In "Childe Harold" this poet talks of "the fatal gift of beauty"
  • Written in 1811, this lord's poem "Farewell To Malta" begins, "Adieu, ye joys of La Valette!"
  • "She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies"
  • Donizetti wrote an opera based on this British lord's poem "Parisina"
  • In 1798 this poet was given a new title he inherited from his great-uncle
  • 14th century doge Marino Faliero was the subject of a tragedy by this "Don Juan" poet
  • This lord never finished his poem "Don Juan", but Zdenìk Fibich based an opera on it anyway
  • "Don Juan's parents lived beside the river, a noble stream, and call'd the Guadalquivir"
  • This lord was a teenager when his first volume of poetry, "Fugitive Pieces", appeared in 1806
  • Not only did he write "Don Juan", he proved it was possible to swim the Hellespont by doing it himself
  • This "Don Juan" poet adopted a third given name, Noel, to receive an inheritance from his mother-in-law
  • Arrgh! A pirate is the hero of "Le Corsaire", based on an 1814 poem by this British lord
  • This British lord & poet declared, "Truth is always strange--stranger than fiction"
  • This poet baron who fought for Greek independence also fought Lord Elgin's removal of the Greek marbles
  • On February 27 this poet addressed the House of Lords for the first time, speaking on the Luddite rioting
  • This poet took melancholy journeys like the ones in his long narrative poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
  • In 1809 he took his seat in the House of Lords & began 2 years of travel in Portugal, Spain & Greece
  • This lord's 1812 poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" made him a star in London at age 24
  • Don Juan, the teenage hero of a poem by this British lord, is "tall, handsome, slender, but well knit"
  • The 1812 publication of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" made this poet an immediate sensation
  • In 1830 biographer Thomas Moore burned the memoirs of this aristocratic Brit to protect the poet's reputation
  • Seen here is Giacomo Tracort's 19th century painting of this English poet in Greece
  • Now a hotel, Seaham Hall is the manor where this licentious lord married Annabella Milbanke in 1815
  • Once popular, Thomas Moore is remembered for burning the memoirs of this famed poet who died in Greece
  • In his poem "Don Juan", this Englishman wrote 7 stanzas about Daniel Boone & his virile exploits