Lord Byron

**George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron** (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English peer, nobleman, politician, and poet. He was christened George Gordon Byron, but changed his name later in life. He adopted the surname Noel, so that he could inherit half his mother-in-law's estate.

Lord Byron was the son Captain John Byron and Catherine Gordon.

He was a leading figure in Romanticism. He was regarded as one of the greatest European poets and many people still 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. He was a dandy, living extravagantly, with many love affairs and debts. His fight against the Turks in the Greek War of Independence led to his death from a fever in Messolonghi in Greece. He is buried in the family vault in St. Mary Magdalene Church, Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire, England. A memorial was not raised to him in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey until 1969.

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

### Major works

- _Hours of Idleness_ (1806)
- _English Bards and Scotch Reviewers_ (1809) http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-Eng-P1.html
- _Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_ (1812–1818) http://www.geocities.com/~bblair/chpindex.htm
- _The Giaour_ (1813) http://www.photoaspects.com/chesil/byron/giaour.html
- _The Bride of Abydos_ (1813)
- _The Corsair_ (1814) http://www.photoaspects.com/chesil/byron/corsair1.html
- _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)

### 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)

## Further reading

- MacCarthy, Fiona: _Byron: Life and Legend_. John Murray, 2002. .
- McGann, Jerome: _Byron and Romanticism_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. .
- Rosen, Fred: _Bentham, Byron and Greece._ Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992.
- Nicholson, Andrew, editor: _The Letters of John Murray to Lord Byron_. Liverpool University Press, 2007. .
- Jean-Pierre Thiollet, _Carré d'Art : Barbey d'Aurevilly, lord Byron, Salvador Dalí, Jean-Edern Hallier_, Anagramme éditions, 2008.

## Other websites

- Pictures of Byron's Walk, Seaham, County Durham
- Poems by Lord Byron at PoetryFoundation.org
- Podcast—Listen Live or download Audio of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord Byron
- A Website of the Romantic Movement
- The Byron Society
- The Byron Society's Journal
- The International Byron Society
- Byron's Grave
- Detailed site on Newstead Abbey, Byron's ancestral home, and on Byron's life in general
- Hucknall Parish Church, Byron's final resting place
- Statue of Byron at Trinity College, Cambridge
- Complete list of Byron poetry
- The Byron Cronology
- _Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_
- Discussion of Byron's homosexuality
- _Byron's Poetical Works, Vol. 1_
- _Byron's Poetical Works, Vol. 6_
- _The Works Of Lord Byron, Letters and Journals, Vol. 1_
- _The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Vol. 2_
- Byron's 1816-1824 letters to Murray and Moore about Armenian studies and translations
- The biography _Byron _ by John Nichol
- Byron quotes
- Lord George Gordon Byron—Biography & Works
- Centre for Byron Studies, University of Nottingham
- The first Full English translation of Fantasmagoriana (Tales of The Dead)
- Byron page on The Literature Network
- Films based on Byron's life and works
- 2003 television dramatization of Byron's life by the BBC
- Detailed account of Byron's love for animals
- Inscription on the monument to Boatswain, Byron's dog
- More on Byron's Newfoundland dogs
- Byron manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas
- George Gordon, Lord Byron at Find-A-Grave

## Infobox (writer)

- **name**: The Lord Byron
- **image**: George Gordon Byron2.jpg
- **birth place**: London, England
- **death place**: Messolonghi, Greece
- **occupation**: Poet, revolutionary, politician