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 ...

News; Letter by English Romantic poet Lord Byron held by Morristown museum turns out to be a fake. Published: ; Jul. 31, 2011, 5:30 p.m.

Hear Marianne Faithfull read Lord Byron's poem "She Walks in Beauty" over music by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' violinist Warren Ellis.

Lord Byron, the Romantic poet, was one of the first celebrities to receive a deluge of fan mail from anonymous women whose amorous epistles he treasured, research has revealed.

Even if we did not know that Byron’s knowledge of books was limited (“ Lord Byron’s reading,” Scott wrote of him in 1815, “did not seem to me to have been very extensive either in poetry ...

What Lord Byron learned when he waded into the fight for Greece’s independence—and why it still matters.

Lord Byron was a celebrity before the word was invented. All over Europe, men saw his portrait, and wanted to look like him. ... Byron?s poems stayed famous; Nathan?s music disappeared.

“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.

George Gordon, Lord Byron, has suffered a peculiar posthumous transformation in reputation. Few people still relish the epic poetry that made him famous in his early 19th century heyday, and now ...

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 ...

Research has revealed that Lord Byron's famous poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" was inspired by the conjunction of Jupiter and the moon on Aug. 20, 1817, as well as the 1815 eruption of Mount ...