It takes a biography of George Gordon Noel, the Sixth Lord Byron (1788-1824) to remind us of quite how radically the world of 200 years ago differs from our own modest arrangements. To read even a ...

Lord Byron is one of the first and best-known philhellenes who actively participated in Greece’s War of Independence.

“Byron: A Life in Ten Letters.” By Andrew Stauffer. London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 401 pages, $29.95 Hardcover. There’s currently a fad to interlace biographies with original ...

The British poet Lord Byron is well-known for his flamboyance. He had love affairs with women, men and the occasional relative, and one mistress called him "mad, bad and dangerous to know" — all of ...

Lord Byron died on April 18, 1824, and so he is having a 200-year moment. The poet Lady Caroline Lamb called “mad, bad, and dangerous to know,” appears in quite a different aspect in Anne Eekhout’s ...

This scintillating study by Stauffer (Book Traces), an English professor at the University of Virginia and president of the Byron Society of America, vividly brings the poet to life by examining “ten ...

George Gordon Byron, who passed away 200 years ago yesterday, was at once both the Romantic period’s most famous poet and its most scandalous public figure. His love affairs and radical political ...

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 ...

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 ...