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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 of British poets. [ 6 ]
Portrait of Lord Byron is a c.1814 portrait painting by the English painter Thomas Phillips of the British aristocrat and poet Lord Byron. [1] [2]Byron had become famous for his narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, published in 1812 establishing him as a celebrity in Regency Britain.
Though often assumed to form part of the poem, they were written not by Byron but by his friend John Hobhouse. [3] A letter of 1830 by Hobhouse suggests that Byron had planned to use the last two lines of his poem by way of an introductory inscription, but found he preferred Hobhouse's comparison of the attributes of dogs and people. [3]
In Barker's latest column, she discusses how Greece will mourn the bicentennial of the death of Baron Byron. "And now I give her my life” - The death of Lord Byron and the birth of Modern Greece ...
Thomas Phillips: George Gordon Byron (1788–1824), 6th Baron Byron, Poet ; Artist: Thomas Phillips (1770–1845) ... Location of birth/death: Dudley : London : Work ...
Un estiu sense estiu. Opera en dos actes (Lord Byron. A summer without a summer. Opera in two actes). Libretto in Catalan by Marc Rosich, world premiere at Staatstheater Darmstadt, March 2011. 2012 – Norwegian black metal band Dødsengel used Byron's poem Darkness in their album Imperator, on the song Darkness.
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
Byron in his late teens. 1804–1806. 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 ...