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  2. Lord Byron - Wikipedia

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    George 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 poets of the United Kingdom. [ 6 ]

  3. Byronic hero - Wikipedia

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    Byron c. 1816, by Henry Harlow. The Byronic hero is a variant of the Romantic hero as a type of character, named after the English Romantic poet Lord Byron. [1] Historian and critic Lord Macaulay described the character as "a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection".

  4. List of Death Note characters - Wikipedia

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    Minoru Tanaka (田中実, Tanaka Minoru) is the new possessor of the Death Note and the main protagonist of the one-shot sequel chapter The a-Kira Story (also titled Death Note: Special One Shot), where he decides to auction off the Death Note instead of using it. Having Ryuk go out to send his instructions to Sakura TV, he creates a hashtag to ...

  5. Manfred - Wikipedia

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    Manfred: A dramatic poem is a closet drama written in 1816–1817 by Lord Byron. It contains supernatural elements, in keeping with the popularity of the ghost story in England at the time. It is a typical example of Gothic fiction .

  6. Lord Byron in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Lawrence Durrell wrote a poem called Byron as a lyrical soliloquy; it was first published in 1944. Susanna Roxman's Allegra in her 1996 collection Broken Angels (Dionysia Press, Edinburgh) is a poem about Byron's daughter by Claire Clairmont. In this text, Byron is referred to as "Papa".

  7. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Wikipedia

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    Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt is a long narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron.The poem was published between 1812 and 1818. Dedicated to "Ianthe", it describes the travels and reflections of a young man disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry and looking for distraction in foreign lands.

  8. The Bride of Abydos - Wikipedia

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    Byron, however hastily he wrote, returned and revised The Bride many times. Nevertheless, the manuscript tradition reveals only minor tweaks to the poem. In another letter [7] Byron expresses his intent to concoct an illicit love affair between the true brother and sister, but he settled on its final format before actually penning the story.

  9. The Prisoner of Chillon - Wikipedia

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    The poem describes the trials of a lone survivor of a family who have been martyred. The character's father was burnt at the stake, and out of six brothers, two fell at the battlefield while one was burnt to death. The remaining three were sent to the castle of Chillon as prisoners, out of which two more died due to pining away.