Lord Byron is one of the first and best-known philhellenes who actively participated in Greece’s War of Independence.

Lord Byron died on April 18, 1824, and so he is having a 200-year moment. The poet Lady Caroline Lamb called “mad, bad, and dangerous to know,” appears in quite a different aspect in Anne Eekhout’s ...

A London mansion that was once home to poet Lord Byron and banking heiress Baroness Catherine d’Erlanger has hit the market. Listed for a cool £29.5 million (or roughly $37.7 million), the palatial ...

The British poet Lord Byron is well-known for his flamboyance. He had love affairs with women, men and the occasional relative, and one mistress called him "mad, bad and dangerous to know" — all of ...

Two hundred years after his death, this Romantic poet is still worth reading. “Who would write, who had anything better to do?” Byron once said.Credit...Musée Fabre/Hulton Fine Art Collection, via ...

George Gordon Byron, who passed away 200 years ago yesterday, was at once both the Romantic period’s most famous poet and its most scandalous public figure. His love affairs and radical political ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A collection of letters written by the flamboyant British poet Lord Byron to one of his closest friends was sold on Thursday for 277,250 pounds ($455,000), far above the ...

It takes a biography of George Gordon Noel, the Sixth Lord Byron (1788-1824) to remind us of quite how radically the world of 200 years ago differs from our own modest arrangements. To read even a ...

He studied all of Byron’s portraits, gathering information for years from other painters and from the poet’s close friends, and chose the profile pose Byron struck for Richard Westall in 1813. Byron ...