A hardback book titled, Poems by Lord Byron with Illustrations, by Byron and published by George Routledge and Sons. It is a cloth bound hardcover book with a sewn binding and gilded page edges. The ...

Some crafty celestial sleuthing has helped astronomers identify the "star" that inspired Lord Byron's famous poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Astronomer Donald Olson, a physics professor at Texas ...

Some crafty celestial sleuthing has helped astronomers identify the "star" that inspired Lord Byron's famous poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Astronomer Donald Olson, a physics professor at Texas ...

It’s July 5, 1807. A drunk and tearful young man sits in his college rooms at Cambridge writing in a “chaos of hope and sorrow” to his childhood friend, Elizabeth Pigot. He has just parted with the ...

In the fourth canto of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, the poem that made Lord Byron famous, the poet describes a remarkable twilight that he observed while cruising along the Brenta Canal in Italy. “The ...

Lord Byron was born 22 January 1788 and died 19 April 1824. He was christened George Gordon Byron but is known as Lord Byron. He was one of our greatest poets, politician and an English peer. He was ...

Marianne Faithfull pays tribute to England’s great romantic poets on her new album, She Walks in Beauty, which she made in collaboration with Bad Seeds and Dirty Three violinist Warren Ellis. They’re ...

THE library of Harvard University received in 1874, as part of the bequest of Charles Sumner, a copy of The Poems of Ossian in two volumes, which has been carefully guarded as one of the treasures 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 ...

Why have male poets disappeared from modern literature? Explore how society shifted from celebrating masculine voices like ...