Anna Barker is pictured at Tepelene Castle in Albania where Byron started writing "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.” On April 19, 2024, mournful Greece will commemorate the bicentennial of the death of her ...

Nottingham is a weird old town, radical and reactionary at the same time. It was the place where King Charles I raised his standard against the Parliament, starting the English Civil War. It is ...

Two hundred years after his death, this Romantic poet is still worth reading. “Who would write, who had anything better to do?” Byron once said.Credit...Musée Fabre/Hulton Fine Art Collection, via ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece has declared the anniversary of the death of Lord Byron, the Romantic poet who fought in its 19th century war of independence, as a day of celebration to hail Greek culture.

Lady Caroline Lamb called her lover, the poet George Gordon — the Sixth Baron Byron — “mad, bad, and dangerous to know.” Now the aristocrat of centuries past is the center of an exhibit, “Byron: A ...

'Lord Byron on the shore of the Hellenic sea' (c1850) by Giacomo Trecourt - DeAgostini/Getty Images Lord Byron (1788–1824) is among the UK’s greatest exports. Why, then, do so many treat him with ...

On April 19, 2024, mournful Greece will commemorate the bicentennial of the death of her dazzling adopted son, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824), whose personal involvement in the Greek War ...