Lord George Gordon Byron

Works

Biography

George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22, 1788–April 19, 1824) was an Anglo-Scottish poet and leading figure in Romanticism. Among his best-known works are the narrative poems Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Don Juan. The latter remained incomplete on his death.

Byron’s fame rests not only on his writings, but also on his life, which featured extravagant living, numerous love affairs, debts, separation, allegations of incest and sodomy and an eventual death from fever after he travelled to fight on the Greek side in the Greek War of Independence. He was famously described by Lady Caroline Lamb as “mad, bad, and dangerous to know.”

Byron was also the father of Ada Lovelace.