The British poet Lord Byron arrived in Greece on Christmas Eve 1823 to join the country’s fight for independence from the Ottoman Empire. A mere hundred days later, on April 19, 1824, he died from ...

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 ...

In March 1812, the poet Lord Byron "woke one morning" to find himself famous. He was 24 years old, and the occasion was the publication that month in London of the first two cantos of his verse ...

200 years after the revolutionary Romantic poet Lord Byron’s death, Greeks are celebrating his place in their national pantheon On Wednesday 18 August 1880, a sale was held at Sotheby’s in London.

Often dubbed as one of the first modern celebrities, Lord Byron was a leading figures of the Romantic movement, a literary and cultural movement that arose in the late 18th Century. Romanticism ...