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On April 19, 1824, the English poet Lord George Gordon Byron died of malaria at age 36 while aiding Greek independence.
He, along with John Keats and Percy Blythe Shelley, were the heart of the English Romantic poetry movement.
He, along with John Keats and Percy Blythe Shelley, were the heart of the English Romantic poetry movement.
Lord Byron (George Gordon)
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Like many others, it is more pleasant to read the works of great writers like Byron, than to read of their lives.
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You are quite right! I personally would rather read his Ode on a Nightingale and Ode on Melancholy. CW3 Harvey K.
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He lived life large, SGT (Join to see)! He also was a very bad boy!
“Often described as the most flamboyant and notorious of the major Romantics, Byron was both celebrated and castigated in his life for his aristocratic excesses, which included huge debts, numerous love affairs with both men and women, as well as rumors of a scandalous liaison with his half-sister.”
“Often described as the most flamboyant and notorious of the major Romantics, Byron was both celebrated and castigated in his life for his aristocratic excesses, which included huge debts, numerous love affairs with both men and women, as well as rumors of a scandalous liaison with his half-sister.”
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