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  1. Jan 22, 2012 · The most flamboyant and notorious of the major English Romantic poets, George Gordon, Lord Byron, was likewise the most fashionable poet of the early 1800s. He created an immensely popular Romantic hero—defiant, melancholy, haunted by secret guilt—for which, to many, he seemed the model.

  2. Born: January 22, 1788. London, England. Died: April 19, 1824. Missolonghi, Greece. English poet. The English poet Lord Byron was one of the most important figures of the Romantic Movement (1785–1830; a period when English literature was full of virtuous heroes and themes of love and triumph).

  3. Jun 29, 2019 · Updated on June 29, 2019. Lord Byron is considered to be one of the greatest British writers and poets of his time. He became a leader in the Romantic Period, alongside contemporaries like William Wordsworth, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley . Fast Facts: Lord Byron. Occupation: English poet, romanticist.

  4. Feb 26, 2024 · Books. Lord Byron Was More Than Just Byronic. Two centuries after his death, the works of the great Romantic poet reveal a sensibility whose restless meld of humor and melancholy feels...

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    r. s. t. u. v. w. x. y. z. Lord Byron, c. 1810 © Byron was the ideal of the Romantic poet, gaining notoriety for his scandalous private life and being described by one contemporary as 'mad, bad...

  6. Sep 20, 2012 · George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (b. 1788–d. 1824), was one of the most important poets of the British romantic period and one of the most prominent public figures in Regency England. His poetry is wide-ranging and accomplished, from lyrics and couplet satires to narrative poems and plays and the masterful satirical epic Don Juan.

  7. Lord Byron - Romantic Poet, Poetry, Works: Byron’s writings are more patently autobiographic than even those of his fellow self-revealing Romantics. Upon close examination, however, the paradox of his complex character can be resolved into understandable elements.

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