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 poet Lord Byron lived a memorable life that included multiple illegitimate children, pet bears, and scandalous memoirs that were never read.

It’s July 5, 1807. A drunk and tearful young man sits in his college rooms at Cambridge writing in a “chaos of hope and sorrow” to his childhood friend, Elizabeth Pigot. He has just parted with the ...

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In Jane Austen's Persuasion, Anne Elliot has a surprising discussion with a shy naval officer about the relative merits of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, and finds Captain Benwick to be "so ...

A hardback book titled, Poems by Lord Byron with Illustrations, by Byron and published by George Routledge and Sons. It is a cloth bound hardcover book with a sewn binding and gilded page edges. The ...

Lord Byron was a celebrity before the word was invented. All over Europe, men saw his portrait, and wanted to look like him. Women ? also a few men ? saw him and wanted to make love to him; a ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

200 years after the revolutionary Romantic poet Lord Byron’s death, Greeks are celebrating his place in their national pantheon On Wednesday 18 August 1880, a sale was held at Sotheby’s in London.