It is almost two hundred years since the death of Lord Byron. He succumbed to a fever on April 19, 1824, in the town of Missolonghi, on the west coast of Greece, at the age of thirty-six.

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 ...

Amid hundreds of thousands of documents donated to the National Historical Park in Morristown was a nearly 200-year-old letter written by Lord Byron, the celebrated English Romantic poet.

Lord Byron was a major figure in the Romantic movement A descendant of Lord Byron wants a statue of the poet moved from a traffic island in central London. The Earl of Lytton cited a government ...