On April 19, 1824, Lord Byron died at Missolonghi ... But, as he once wrote, “Alas! the love of women.” While he sometimes ...

The poem, '40 Love' has been hailed on social media as both 'beautiful' and 'genius' with it's unusual layout mimicking a ...

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Portrait of Catherine Gordon, mother of Lord Byron, by Thomas Stewardson. (Photo: Wikipedia) So many misfortunes happened to him in his childhood, that the only good thing he had was having ...

Lord Byron may be regarded as one of England’s ... Byron racked up debts, and became so scandalous for his saucy poetry and love life that he went into European exile in 1816 and never returned.

“Love is heaven; marriage is hell,” wrote Lord Byron 150 years ago. At the time he could not have foreseen the incredible popularity that his idea would have today. In our society the beauty ...

The Greek War of Independence erupted into the the early nineteenth century as Europe was being shaken to its roots by riots in many nations.