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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]
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale, better known as the poet Lord Byron, was born 22 January 1788 in Holles Street, London, England, and from 2 years old raised by his mother in Aberdeen, Scotland before moving back to England aged 10. His life was complicated by his father, who died deep in debt when he was a child.
The Dream is a poem written by Lord Byron in 1816. It has been described as expressing "central Romantic beliefs about dreams". [1] It also describes the view from the Misk Hills, close to Byron's ancestral home in Newstead, Nottinghamshire. [2]
Frontispiece illustration of a bust of Lord Byron in the 1824 edition of Don Juan. (Benbow publisher) Byron was a prolific writer, for whom "the composition of his great poem, Don Juan, was coextensive with a major part of his poetical life"; he wrote the first canto while resident in Italy in 1818, and the 17th canto in early 1823. [3]
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.
“Lord Byron prefaces this portion of his manuscript by professing his design of hurrying over it, as it is of all the most painful to record. “He then, in the most cold-blooded and heartless ...
Boatswain's Monument at Newstead Abbey A Landseer dog, the breed Byron eulogized, painted by Edwin Henry Landseer, 1802–1873 "Epitaph to a Dog" (also sometimes referred to as "Inscription on the Monument to a Newfoundland Dog") is a poem by the British poet Lord Byron.
This is a chronology of events in the life of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824). Each year links to its corresponding "year in poetry" article: 1788. 22 January – Born, 16 Holles Street, London. 1789. Mother (Catherine Gordon) took lodgings in Queen Street, Aberdeen. 1791