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British · 1788-1824 · 13 quotes
British · 1788–1824
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Lord Byron — George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron — was the defining celebrity of English Romanticism: a poet of staggering gifts and a life of deliberate excess that made him a scandal and a legend simultaneously. Born in 1788 in London, he inherited his title at ten and was educated at Harrow and Cambridge before Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, published in 1812, made him famous "the morning after." The poems and verse tales that followed — Manfred, Don Juan, The Vision of Judgment — combined lyrical beauty with satirical bite and philosophical restlessness. Byron was bisexual, politically radical, and constitutionally incapable of settled domesticity; his affairs, his separation from his wife, and persistent rumors of incest drove him from England permanently in 1816. He spent his later years in Italy and Switzerland before dying in 1824 at Missolonghi, Greece, where he had gone to fight for Greek independence from the Ottomans.
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