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Lord Byron
George Noel Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, was a British poet. He was one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest British poets. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narratives Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular.
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politics · British poet (1788–1824) · poet · lyricist · politician · autobiographer · translator · diarist · writer · librettist · aristocrat · philhellene · also Lord Byron, George Gordon Byron Lord, George Gordon Byron, Noel Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Lord Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
Born 22 January 1788 · Died 19 April 1824 · Q5679
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2026· 7 entries
“Thou false to him, thou fiend to me”
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“I should not like to give the Greeks but a half helping hand”
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“Gamba—who is anything but lucky—had something to do with it—and as usual—the moment he had—matters went wrong”
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WGN-TV: 6@6: Lord Byron and his pet bear - WGN-TV
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Yahoo: 6@6: Lord Byron and his pet bear
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Vozpopuli: Lord Byron, Poeta y ex Miembro de la Cámara de los Lores: "Sevilla es una hermosa ciudad [...] pero Cádiz es la ciudad más bonita que he visto nunca"
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2025· 1 entry
“I am tired of pl & opt Cs, the last thing I could be tired of.”
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2024· 3 entries
The Guardian: Lord Byron museum to open in Italian building where poet had intense affair
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Tatler: Lord Byron discovery paints the ‘bad boy’ of the Romantic movement in very unbecoming hues
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The Guardian: The death of Lord Byron – archive, April 1824
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2023· 1 entry
Medical Xpress: Lord Byron vinegar diet can have a series of harmful health effects
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2021· 4 entries
The Guardian: Prized personal items of Lord Byron go on display in Edinburgh
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The Guardian: Poem of the week: Love and Death by Lord Byron
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BBC: Mad, bad and dangerous to know - 9 fascinating facts about Lord Byron
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The Guardian: Revealed: Lord Byron’s £4,000 cheque that helped create modern Greece
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2019· 2 entries
The Guardian: The Private Life of Lord Byron by Antony Peattie review – portrait of a paradox
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The Guardian: Weatherwatch: Lord Byron's account of a Venetian storm
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2017· 1 entry
Phys.org: 'Celestial Sleuth' identifies Lord Byron's stellar inspiration
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2015· 1 entry
The Daily Telegraph: Lord Byron's former London home to be transformed into £45 million mansion
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2012· 1 entry
The Daily Telegraph: Lord Byron: mad, bad and dangerous to know, but definitely not from Croydon
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2010· 1 entry
Part of a baptismal record was uncovered which apparently said: "September 24 George illegitimate son of Lucy Monk, illegitimate son of Baron Byron, of Newstead, Nottingham, Newstead Abbey
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2008· 1 entry
The Hellenic Parliament designated 19 April, the anniversary of Byron's death, as the "Day of Philhellenism and International Solidarity"
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1995· 1 entry
Christina Hardyment of The Daily Telegraph discovered a hitherto unknown connection to Byron through the poet Michael C
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1971· 1 entry
Reflected the fascination that many people had with Byron and his work
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1969· 1 entry
145 years after Byron's death, a memorial to him was placed in Westminster Abbey
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1910· 1 entry
“Jealousy: Causes and a Possible Cure”
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1907· 1 entry
“People are beginning to ask whether this ignoring of Byron is not a thing of which England should be ashamed ... a bust or a tablet might be put in the Poets' Corner and England be relieved of ingratitude toward one of her really great sons.”
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1840· 1 entry
About Byron's views on Scotland:
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1834· 1 entry
For ten years, British institutions turned it down and it remained in storage
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1832· 1 entry
His regular publisher, John Murray, released the complete works in 14 duodecimo volumes, including a life by Thomas Moore
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1824· 22 entries
Died 1824-04-19.
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“Dobro tylko rzadko wypływa z dobrej rady.”
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“A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.”
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“The English winter – ending in July,To recommence in August (ang.)”
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“Ale mi nie patrz w serce: tam jest piekło.”
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“Bądź mi zdrowa! bądź mi zdrowa,Już na wieczny żegnaj czas!Serce wiary ci dochowa,Choć twa wzgarda dzieli nas.”
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“Who knows whether, when a comet shall approach this globe to destroy it, as it often has been and will be destroyed, men will not tear rocks from their foundations by means of steam, and hurl mountains, as the giants are said to have done, against the flaming mass?—and then we shall have traditions of Titans again, and of wars with Heaven.”
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“Błądzić po całym świecie, jak wyrzutek,W ubiegłe patrząc fale, coraz skorsze:To moja dola, a słodzi jej smutekMyśl, żem wycierpiał już to, co najgorsze.”
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“Maid of Athens, ere we part,Give, oh give me back my heart!Or, since that has left my breast,Keep it now, and take the rest! (ang.)”
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“Gdybyś wnikła mi do łona,W którem szczera bije krew,Ujrzałabyś, zapłoniona,Jak niesłusznym był twój gniew.”
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“We have fools in all sects, and imposters in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals”
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“She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that’s best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes. (ang.)”
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“Jest coś, co bardzo mnie uspokaja w obecności kobiety – jakiś dziwny wpływ, nawet jeśli się jej nie kocha – którego w żaden sposób nie potrafię wytłumaczyć, nie mając zbyt wysokiego mniemania o tej płci. Mimo to – zawsze czuję się lepiej w stosunku do siebie i wszystkiego innego, gdy w pobliżu jest kobieta.”
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“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society where none intrudes,By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:I love not Man the less, but Nature more. (ang.)”
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“Jestem z rodu aniołów;czy chcesz stać się do mnie podobnym?– Widzę twoją moc i piękność; ale wskazujesz mi rzeczy,przewyższające moje siły, chociaż nieprzewyższające mojego pojęcia.”
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“Eat, drink, and love; the rest's not worth a fillip.”
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“When we two partedIn silence and tears,Half broken-heartedTo sever for years,Pale grew thy cheek and cold,Colder thy kiss;Truly that hour foretoldSorrow to this. (ang.)”
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“Miłość, moim skromnym zdaniem, to kompletna bzdura, żargon komplementów, romansów i oszustw; teraz, co do mnie, gdybym miał pięćdziesiąt kochanek, w ciągu dwóch tygodni zapomniałbym o nich wszystkich, a jeśli przypadkiem jakąś bym sobie przypomniał, śmiałbym się z tego jak ze snu.”
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“Moim jest losemŻarliwie, próżno kochać cię i błądzić.”
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“Opis: motto utworu Norwida Fortepian Szopena.”
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A month after Byron's death
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At the age of 36, from a fever contracted after the first and second sieges of Missolonghi
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1823· 3 entries
The ship's Captain decided to sail to Genoa and offer the Hercules for charter
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When, growing bored with his life there, he accepted overtures for his support from representatives of the Greek independence movement from the Ottoman Empire
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Every day at noon, Byron and Trelawny, in calm weather, jumped overboard for a swim without fear of sharks, which were not unknown in those waters
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1822· 1 entry
And her will required that he change his surname to "Noel" in order to inherit half of her estate
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1821· 1 entry
Byron left Ravenna and went to live in the Tuscan city of Pisa, to which Teresa had also relocated
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1819· 1 entry
After disputes with his regular publisher over the shocking nature of the poetry
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1817· 3 entries
Clara Allegra Byron, with Claire Clairmont, stepsister of Mary Shelley and stepdaughter of William Godwin, writer of Political Justice and Caleb Williams
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Allegra lived with Byron for a few months in Venice; he refused to allow an Englishwoman caring for the girl to adopt her and objected to her being raised in the Shelleys' household
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Co-authored Grammar English and Armenian, an English textbook written by Aucher and corrected by Byron, and A Grammar Armenian and English in 1819, a project he initiated of a grammar of Classical Armenian for English
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1816· 1 entry
Byron visited San Lazzaro degli Armeni in Venice, where he acquainted himself with Armenian culture with the help of the monks belonging to the Mechitarist Order
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1815· 2 entries
By his wife Annabella Byron, Lady Byron (née Anne Isabella Milbanke, or "Annabella"), later Lady Wentworth
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Byron had married Annabella Milbanke
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1814· 1 entry
Was possibly fathered by Byron, who was Augusta's half-brother
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1813· 1 entry
Met for the first time in four years his half-sister, Augusta Leigh
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1812· 1 entry
Byron embarked on a well-publicised affair with the married Lady Caroline Lamb that shocked the British public
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1810· 1 entry
Byron wrote "Maid of Athens, ere we part" for a 12-year-old girl, Teresa Makri
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1809· 1 entry
“You will discharge my Cook, & Laundry Maid, the other two I shall retain to take care of the house, more especially as the youngest is pregnant (I need not tell you by whom) and I cannot have the girl on the parish.”
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1808· 1 entry
Cruising with his cousin George Bettesworth, who was captain of the 32-gun frigate HMS Tartar, but Bettesworth's death at the Battle of Alvøen in May 1808 made that impossible
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1801· 1 entry
Studied at Harrow School (1801).
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1788· 1 entry
Born 1788-01-22.
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