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First page from the 1816 collection The Prisoner of Chillon. "Darkness" is a poem written by Lord Byron in July 1816 on the theme of an apocalyptic end of the world which was published as part of the 1816 The Prisoner of Chillon collection.
Lord Byron was inspired to write the poem "Darkness" by a single day when "the fowls all went to roost at noon and candles had to be lit as at midnight". [45] The imagery in the poem is starkly similar to the conditions of the Year Without a Summer: [51]
Pages in category "Poetry by Lord Byron" ... Darkness (poem) The Destruction of Sennacherib; Don Juan (poem) The Dream (Byron poem) E. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers;
This pall of darkness inspires Byron to write his poem "Darkness" in July. Lord Byron separates from his wife and in April leaves England to tour continental Europe (never returning), settling in the summer in Switzerland, at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva; in late May he meets, and soon becomes friends with, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley ...
The Greeks mourned Lord Byron deeply, and he became a hero. [105] [106] The national poet of Greece, Dionysios Solomos, wrote a poem about the unexpected loss, named To the Death of Lord Byron. [107] Βύρων, the Greek form of "Byron", continues in popularity as a masculine name in Greece, and a suburb of Athens is called Vyronas in his honour.
"She Walks in Beauty" is a short lyrical poem in iambic tetrameter written in 1814 by Lord Byron, and is one of his most famous works. [2] It is said to have been inspired by an event in Byron's life. On 11 June 1814, Byron attended a party in London. Among the guests was Mrs. Anne Beatrix Wilmot, wife of Byron's first cousin, Sir Robert Wilmot ...
Poem 1816 Sun "Darkness" Lord Byron Describes the end of life on Earth after the Sun's extinction Novel 1826 Disease The Last Man [3] Mary Shelley: Novel 1872 Technology "The Book of Machines" The novel Erewhon 's section "The Book of Machines" Novel 1885 War After London [4] Richard Jefferies
2011 – Agustí Charles: Lord Byron. 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 ...