Lord Byron - Wikipedia Byron was the only child of Captain John 'Jack' Byron and his second wife, Catherine Gordon (of the Clan Gordon), heiress of the Gight estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Lord Byron | Poems, Books, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Ada Lovelace . . . Lord Byron (born January 22, 1788, London, England—died April 19, 1824, Missolonghi, Greece) was a British Romantic poet and satirist whose poetry and personality captured the imagination of Europe, making him one of the first great literary celebrities
Lord Byron (George Gordon) | The Poetry Foundation The most flamboyant and notorious of the major English Romantic poets, George Gordon, Lord Byron, was likewise the most fashionable poet of the early 1800s He created an immensely popular Romantic hero—defiant, melancholy, haunted by secret guilt—for which, to many, he seemed the model
Early life of Lord Byron - Wikipedia George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale, better known as the poet Lord Byron, was born 22 January 1788 in Holles Street, London, England, and from two years old raised by his mother in Aberdeen, Scotland before moving back to England aged ten
Lord Byron - Romantic Poet, Poetry, Works | Britannica Byron was a superb letter writer, conversational, witty, and relaxed, and the 20th-century publication of many previously unknown letters has further enhanced his literary reputation
Lord Byron | His Life, Writing, Affairs Death | HistoryExtra Lord Byron is renowned for his contributions to the Romantic movement in literature He gained widespread fame with the first two cantos of his narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage in 1812, the reflections of a young man disillusioned with his life of pleasure