George Gordon

He was one of the most famous of the English 'Romantic' poets
John Keats
William Wordsworth
Jane Austen
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Blake

Captain John Byron named „Mad Jack”
and
Catherine Gordon
Son of

Aberdeen
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Dulwich, Harrow, Cambridge

Newstead

Newstead

Augusta Leigh

Hours Of Idleness
Hours Of Idleness - was the first volume of poetry published by Lord Byron, in 1807, when he was 19 years old. It is a collection of mostly short poems, many in imitation of classic Roman poets.

English Bards And Scotch Reviewers
English Bards And Scotch Reviewersin - is a satirical poem written by Lord Byron. It was first published, anonymously, in March 1809; the opening parodies the first satire of Juvenal. A second, expanded edition followed later in 1809, with Byron identified as the author.

House of Lords

Byron’s grand tour

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
William Turner – „Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
Portrait of Lady Charlotte Harley (1801-1880) as Ianthe whome Byron dedicate Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Love-affair with
Lady Caroline Lamb
Lady Caroline Lamb, by Eliza H. Trotter

The Corsair

Marriage with Anne Isabella Milbanke

Ada Lovelace – daughter of Anne Isabelle Milbanke and Lord Byron

The marriage was unhappy, and they obtained legal separation next year.

Geneva

He settled in Geneva with Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and Claire Clairmont
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Claire Clairmont
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Claire Clairmont

The Prisoner Of Chillon
Chillon
„The Prisoner Of Chillon” by Eugène Delacroix
„The Prisoner Of Chillon” by Brown, Ford Madox

Byron continued his travels, spending two years in Italy

Lament Of Tasso
Byron wrote Lament Of Tasso, inspired by his visit in Tasso's cell in Rome
Eugene Delacroix – Torquato Tasso in prison
Torquato Tasso

Mazeppa
Mazeppa - is a Romantic narrative poem written by Lord Byron in 1819, based on a popular legend about the early life of Ivan Mazepa (1639-1709), a Ukrainian gentleman who later became Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks.
Horace Vernet (1789-1863)
Mazeppa and the Wolves

Don Juan
The finding of Don Juan by Haidee.
Byron as Don Juan, with Haidee - Alexandre-Marie Colin
Don Juan- is a satiric poem by Lord Byron, based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womanizer but as someone easily seduced by women

The Two Foscari, Sardanapalaus, Cain
Cain - is a dramatic work by Byron published in 1821. In Cain, Byron attempts to dramatize the story of Cain and Abel from Cain's point of view. Cain is an example of the literary genre known as closet drama

He armed a ship, the Hercules, and sailed to Greece

Byron sailed to Greece to aid the Greeks, who had risen against their Ottoman overlords

Byron ill with fever
from which he died in Missolonghi on 19 April 1824

Missolonghi

Finally Byron's coffin was placed in the family vault at Hucknall Torkard, near Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire.
The Chancel of Hucknall Torkard Church, under the floor of which is the Byron Vault