Rather than attempting to match Fiona MacCarthy’s comprehensive Byron: Life and Legend (2002), Stauffer gives us a portrait of Byron framed by his 10 “most interesting and characteristic ...

Byron was in the van of those poets who came to be known as “Romantics,” and his life had something of the turbulence of a fairy tale. The future Lord Byron was born in 1788 to a family that could ...

The person whom we know as Lord Byron made his entrance into the world ... went along with it, posing for a “Portrait of a Nobleman in the Dress of an Albanian.” To modern senses, “The ...

A portrait of Lord Byron from the early 1800s Credit: Getty A graceful work in white marble, it shows Byron in the arms of a semi-naked female figure. Yet this is not one of the many women who ...

William Sartain, after Thomas Phillips, Portrait of Byron, 1868, Mezzotint, The Print Collection of the New York Public Library. “Byron: A Life in Motion,” at the New York Public Library’s Stephen A.

Lord Byron died at the age of 36 of malaria ... Needless to say, Pushkin wrote the novel under the watchful gaze of a Byron portrait above his desk - and a statue of Napoleon on the mantelpiece ...

A discovery at Trinity College, Cambridge has shed new light on the ‘bad boy’ of the Romantic movement, Lord Byron. Adam Green, an archivist at Trinity College (where Byron studied as a young man) ...