Lord Byron - Cain: A Mystery: There Is No Instinct Like That of the Heart. Byron George Gordon 1788-Paperback
Lord Byron - Cain: A Mystery: There Is No Instinct Like That of the Heart. Byron George Gordon 1788-Paperback George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, but more commonly known as just Byron was a leading…
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Lord Byron - Cain: A Mystery: There Is No Instinct Like That of the Heart. Byron George Gordon 1788-Paperback
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, but more commonly known as just Byron was a leading English poet in the Romantic Movement along with Keats and Shelley. He was a great traveller across Europe, spending many years in Italy and much time in Greece. Byron was born on January 22nd, 1788.
In 1823 he joined the Greeks in their war of Independence against the Ottoman Empire, both helping to fund and advise on the war's conduct. With his aristocratic indulgences, flamboyant style along with his debts, and a string of lovers he was the constant talk of society. It was an extraordinary adventure, even by his own standards.
But, for us, it is his poetry for which he is mainly remembered even though it is difficult to see where he had time to write his works of immense beauty. But write them he did. He died on April 19th 1824 after having contracted a cold which, on the advice of his doctors,