George Byron

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**Lord Byron**

Born:	January 22 1788(1788-01-22) London, England
Died:	April 19 1824 (aged 36) Messolonghi, Greece
Occupation:	Poet, revolutionary

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788–19 April 1824), is commonly known as Lord Byron. He was an English poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. He was regarded as one of the greatest European poets and still many people read his works. Among his best-known works are the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan.

Lord Byron is also famous for the way he lived his life: extravagant living, many love affairs, debts, separation and for his fight against the Turks in the Greek War of Independence which lead to his death from a fever in Messolonghi in Greece. There were rumours that he was homosexual (which was against the law, at that time) and that he was guilty of incest. Lady Caroline Lamb, who was his lover for a time, said that he was "mad, bad, and dangerous to know."

His daughter Ada Lovelace is famous because she collaborated with Charles Babbage on the "analytical engine", a predecessor to modern computers.

1 Bibliography
- 1.1 Major works
- 1.2 Minor works
2 Further reading
3 Other websites

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

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Hours of Idleness (1806)
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809) [1]
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812–1818) [2]
The Giaour (1813) [3]
The Bride of Abydos (1813)
The Corsair (1814) [4]
Lara (1814)
Hebrew Melodies (1815)
The Siege of Corinth (poem) (1816)
Parisina (1816)
The Prisoner Of Chillon (1816) (text on Wikisource)
The Dream (1816)
Prometheus (1816)
Darkness (1816)
Manfred (1817) (text on Wikisource)
The Lament of Tasso (1817)
Beppo (1818)
Mazeppa (1819)
The Prophecy of Dante (1819)
Marino Faliero (1820)
Sardanapalus (1821)
The Two Foscari (1821)
Cain (1821)
The Vision of Judgement (1821)
Heaven and Earth (1821)
Werner (1822)
The Deformed Transformed (1822)
The Age of Bronze (1823)
The Island (1823)
Don Juan (1819–1824; incomplete on Byron's death in 1824)

[change] Minor works

So, we'll go no more a roving (text on Wikisource)
The First Kiss of Love (1806) (text on Wikisource)
Thoughts Suggested by a College Examination (1806) (text on Wikisource)
To a Beautiful Quaker (1807) (text on Wikisource)
The Cornelian (1807) (text on Wikisource}
Lines Addressed to a Young Lady (1807) (text on Wikisource)
Lachin y Garr (1807) (text on Wikisource)
Epitaph to a Dog (1808) (text on Wikisource)
She Walks in Beauty (1814) (text on Wikisource)
When We Two Parted (text on Wikisource)

[change] Further reading

MacCarthy, Fiona: Byron: Life and Legend. John Murray, 2002. ISBN 071955621X.
McGann, Jerome: Byron and Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-521-00722-4.
Rosen, Fred: Bentham, Byron and Greece. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992. ISBN 0198200781
Nicholson, Andrew, editor: The Letters of John Murray to Lord Byron. Liverpool University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1846310690.
Thiollet, Jean-Pierre, Carré d'Art : Barbey d'Aurevilly, lord Byron, Salvador Dali, Jean-Edern Hallier, Anagramme éditions, 2008. ISBN 2 35035 189 6