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Há 1 dia · George Gordon Byron was born on 22 January 1788, on Holles Street in London, England [1] – his birthplace is now supposedly occupied by a branch of the department store John Lewis . Byron was the only child of Captain John Byron (known as 'Jack') and his second wife, Catherine Gordon, heiress of the Gight estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Há 2 dias · 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.
Há 4 dias · In the National Gallery in Athens a painting of 1861 by Theodoros Vryzakis depicts the reception of Lord Byron. As he lands on the Greek mainland at Missolonghi Byron is greeted as a hero, a poetic Messiah who has come to resurrect Greece, and to rescue it from centuries of tyranny and historical oblivion. His way is strewn with palms and a ...
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 ...
11 de mai. de 2024 · 2024 – the Year of Byron - marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Lord Byron, the renowned British Romantic poet and a seminal figure in modern Greek history as a result of his undying commitment to the cause of freedom in the Greek War of Independence in 1821.
1 de mai. de 2024 · Poetic pose: Lord Byron the image-conscious Romantic in five portraits. The face of the scandal-ridden, best-selling celebrity poet—who died 200 years ago, and had a great influence on 19th ...
16 de mai. de 2024 · Authors, &c. B. Authors, &c. B. Byron, George Gordon, Lord [1788–1824]. [works] Byron—his life and works—had perhaps the single greatest influence on the writing of the Brontës. His aristocratic background, liberal views, and unconventional life captured the imaginations of the adolescent Brontës and engendered not only a sexual and ...
