Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron was born on January 22, 1788 and he inherited the barony in 1798. He went to school in Dulwich, and then in 1801 to Harrow. In 1805 he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, later gaining a reputation in London for his startling good looks and extravagant behavior. His first collection of poems, Hours of Idleness (1807), was not well received, but with the publication of the first two cantos of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812) he became famous overnight and increased this fame with a series of wildly popular ‘Eastern Tales’. In 1815 he married the heiress Annabella Milbanke, but they were separated after a year. Byron shocked society by the rumored…

Byron's Travels

Byron's Travels

Lord Byron; Selected and Introduced by Fiona Stafford

Series with Lord Byron

Books by Lord Byron from Steerforth Press

White Teeth, Red Blood

White Teeth, Red Blood

Lord Byron, Charles Baudelaire, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Ishmael Reed