Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein ends with a Lord Byron quote, beautifully connecting Mary Shelley’s creation to its origins ...

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 ...

The name Lord Byron instantly brings to mind scandal, heartbreak, and that unforgettable description: “mad, bad, and dangerous to know.” Those words came from Lady Caroline Lamb herself. When they met ...

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 ...

Not many writers furnish enough material for a biography focused entirely on their love lives. In his short life (1788-1824), George Gordon, Lord Byron, managed to cram in just about every sort of ...

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 ...

ITALY in the spring of 1819 was the setting of what many have regarded as Byron’s most important love. At a party in Venice in April, Byron was introduced to Countess Teresa Guiccioli. The attraction ...

Even the most open-minded auds will eventually run out of patience with experimental pic “Lord Byron,” a provocative collage whose only connection with the eponymous poet is the creation of romantic ...

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 ...