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Há 2 dias · Lord Byron. George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet and peer. [1] [2] He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, [3] [4] [5] and is regarded as being among the greatest of English poets. [6]
Há 6 dias · Lord Byron, British Romantic poet whose published works and personality captured the imagination of Europe during his lifetime. His greatest poem, Don Juan, is a witty satirical commentary that exposes the hypocrisy underlying social and sexual conventions.
- Lord Byron was a British Romantic poet and satirist whose poetry and personality captured the imagination of Europe. Although made famous by the au...
- George Gordon Byron was born in 1788, the son of British Capt. John (“Mad Jack”) Byron and Catherine Gordon, a Scottish heiress. After John squande...
- Although handsome, Lord Byron was born with a clubfoot that made him sensitive about his appearance all his life. However, this did not stop him fr...
- Aiding the Greeks in their struggle for independence from Turkish rule, Lord Byron took command of a brigade of Souliot soldiers in early 1824. How...
25 de mai. de 2024 · Byron is welcomed by Alexandros Mavrocordatos, a friend who became the first Prime Minister of Greece. How has the double status of Byron emerged, hero and pariah? Is there a clue to be found in his Classical education?
27 de mai. de 2024 · May 27, 2024. In the pantheon of English Romantic poets, few figures loom as large as George Gordon Byron, better known as Lord Byron. Born in 1788 to an aristocratic family, Byron became a towering literary celebrity in his lifetime, famous as much for his flamboyant lifestyle and scandalous love affairs as for his lyrical and satirical verses.
7 de mai. de 2024 · 07.05.2024 • 17:10. “Britain and Greece have a co-ownership of Byron; in Britain as a foremost poet and in Greece as someone associated with Greek liberation,” says Lord Lytton, a fourth-generation descendant of Lord Byron, in a special edition of Kathimerini. With roots in European aristocracy stretching back to William I of ...
Há 1 dia · Often dubbed as one of the first modern celebrities, Lord Byron was a leading figures of the Romantic movement, a literary and cultural movement that arose in the late 18th Century.
Há 21 horas · In 1810, aged just 22, he swam three miles across the Hellespont, the strait of water now known as the Dardanelles that separate continental Europe from Asia. Even more impressively, for a swim amid strong currents, he did so in “an hour and 10 minutes”, according to Hobhouse. Byron’s swim was inspired by the Classical Greek myth of Hero ...
