Lord Byron (1788–1824) gave five different poems the title “Stanzas for Music” — simply as a generic name by which he meant either that he heard the rhythm of a melody while he wrote the poems, or ...

Lord Byron’s letters reveal the real queer love and loss that inspired his poetry ... They are the subject of two poems in Byron’s first collection, Hours of Idleness (1807).

Anthony Lane writes on Lord Byron, who died two hundred years ago this April, and about a new biography, “Byron: A Life in Ten Letters,” by Andrew Stauffer, and a new edition of Byron’s poetry.

“Lord Byron could not have been more than 30,” one visitor remarked, “but he looked 40. His face had become pale, ... “You have so many ‘divine’ poems,” Byron told him.

It’s a 200-Year Moment for Lord Byron, a Poet Called ‘Mad, Bad, and Dangerous To Know’ The poet appears in quite a different aspect in Anne Eekhout’s evocative novel, where in addition to being ...

The British poet Lord Byron arrived in Greece on Christmas Eve 1823 to join the country’s fight for independence from the Ottoman Empire. A mere hundred days later, on April 19, 1824, he died ...

In March 1812, the poet Lord Byron "woke one morning" to find himself famous. He was 24 years old, and the occasion was the publication that month in London of the first two cantos of his verse ...

The young man is Lord Byron and his Cornelian is the Cambridge chorister John Edleston. ... They are the subject of two poems in Byron’s first collection, Hours of Idleness (1807).