A hardback book titled, Poems by Lord Byron with Illustrations, by Byron and published by George Routledge and Sons. It is a cloth bound hardcover book with a sewn binding and gilded page edges. The ...

Byron racked up debts, and became so scandalous for his saucy poetry and love life that he went into European exile in 1816 ...

It’s July 5, 1807. A drunk and tearful young man sits in his college rooms at Cambridge writing in a “chaos of hope and sorrow” to his childhood friend, Elizabeth Pigot. He has just parted with the ...

Marianne Faithfull pays tribute to England’s great romantic poets on her new album, She Walks in Beauty, which she made in collaboration with Bad Seeds and Dirty Three violinist Warren Ellis. They’re ...

In the fourth canto of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, the poem that made Lord Byron famous, the poet describes a remarkable twilight that he observed while cruising along the Brenta Canal in Italy. “The ...

The poet Lord Byron lived a memorable life that included multiple illegitimate children, pet bears, and scandalous memoirs that were never read.

In Jane Austen's Persuasion, Anne Elliot has a surprising discussion with a shy naval officer about the relative merits of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, and finds Captain Benwick to be "so ...

Lord Byron was a celebrity before the word was invented. All over Europe, men saw his portrait, and wanted to look like him. Women ? also a few men ? saw him and wanted to make love to him; a ...

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