He was 36. Byron is regarded as a Homeric hero in Greece. Had he lived he might have been king of that land. He was venerated as something of the sort among poets in his native country. Alfred, Lord ...

And greatly venerate our recent glories/ And wish they were not owing to the Tories' Lord Byron, "Beppo: A Venetian Story", 1817. "The whole work is very bad," says Hannan. 2. 'And full-grown ...

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 ...

Even before rumours of his affair with his half-sister spread, Lord Byron had a reputation for scandal. His lover Lady Caroline Lamb famously described him as “mad, bad and dangerous to know”.

Lord Byron may be regarded as one of England’s finest poets, but did you know he had a pet bear and a penchant for drinking from human skulls? In this episode of You’re Dead to Me, public ...

You could make a list noting similarities and differences between the two poems. Byron uses a highly regular poetic form of four line stanzas. Levertov uses two blocks of free verse. Byron’s ...