Lord Byron died on April 18, 1824, and so he is having a 200-year moment. The poet Lady Caroline Lamb called “mad, bad, and dangerous to know,” appears in quite a different aspect in Anne Eekhout’s ...
In an introduction to Ariel, Maurois describes his aim as that of a novelist rather than that of a historian or critic. An able psychologist, with a winning sense of humor and a style perfected from ...
On April 19, 1824, Lord Byron died at Missolonghi, where he had gone to lend his name and give financial support to the Greek war for independence from the Ottoman Empire. After being drenched by a ...
It takes a biography of George Gordon Noel, the Sixth Lord Byron (1788-1824) to remind us of quite how radically the world of 200 years ago differs from our own modest arrangements. To read even a ...
George Gordon Byron, sixth baron of that title, is certainly a poet who stands in that rarefied company, though it's hard to believe that even the linguistic laurels represented by the now commonplace ...
Even before rumours of his affair with his half-sister spread, Lord Byron had a reputation for scandal. His lover Lady Caroline Lamb famously described him as “mad, bad and dangerous to know”. That ...
Sam Hirst works as a research fellow at Nottingham University in a collaboration with Newstead Abbey where some of these items are held. They receive funding from AHRC. It’s July 5 1807. A drunk and ...
A new tavern has opened in Italy in honour of Nottingham poet Lord Byron. To commemorate 200 years since the death of the poet, whose family home is in Newstead, the Byron Museum in Ravenna, Italy has ...
BYRON allures the biographer. A shy exhibitionist, a licentious puritan, a sentimental sadist, a convivial misanthrope, a superstitious skeptic, creature and creator of a legend which both reveals and ...
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