George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, born on 22 January 1788, known as Lord Byron was a British poet. The English branch of the family of Byron came in with William the Conqueror. From that era they have continued to be reckoned among the eminent families of the kingdom, under the names of Buron and Biron.
Byron was a controverisal perosonality for his aristocratic excesses, huge debts, love affairs but also for his self-imposed exile. Lord Byron faught against the Ottoman Empire and in the Greek War of Independence. He was called by the Greeks a national hero.
George Byron was a leading figure in Romanticism. The brief poems She walks in Beauty, So we’ll go no more a roving and the narrative poems Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Don Juan are among Byron’s best known works.
He died on 19 April 1824 because of a severe wound. Mavrokordatos and Byron planned to attack the Turkish-held fortress at the mouth of the Gulf of Corinth. Despite his lack of military experience, Byron and took part of the rebel army under his own command.
He is regarded until today as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential.
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