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 ...

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 ...

Marianne Faithfull pays tribute to England’s great romantic poets on her new album, She Walks in Beauty, which she made in collaboration with Bad Seeds and Dirty Three violinist Warren Ellis. They’re ...

Both Romantic and realist, what is thought to be the poet’s final work is a passionate declaration of unrequited love Love and Death 1. I watched thee when the foe was at our side, Ready to strike at ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE library of Harvard University received in 1874, as part of the bequest of Charles Sumner, a copy of The Poems of Ossian in two volumes, which has been carefully guarded as one of the treasures of ...

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