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 ...

On April 19, 1824, Lord Byron died at Missolonghi, where he had gone to lend his name and give financial support to the Greek war for independence from the Ottoman Empire. After being drenched by a ...

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 ...

Returning to London after travelling in Greece, Byron struggles to be accepted as a poet. Returning to London after travelling in Greece, Byron struggles to be accepted as a poet. But his fortunes are ...

Byron insisted on profiles because one eye was bigger than the other, and of a slightly different color. (While the poet was sensitive about this feature, others found it striking.) Compared with ...

BYRON allures the biographer. A shy exhibitionist, a licentious puritan, a sentimental sadist, a convivial misanthrope, a superstitious skeptic, creature and creator of a legend which both reveals and ...

On May 3, 1810 — 113 years ago today — George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) swam to Asia from Europe. Or at least to Abydos, on the Turkish side of the Dardanelles (also called the Hellespont, the narrow ...

CUMBRIA, England (WKRC) - An old book of poetry was returned to its former home at a school library after over 100 years of being overdue. Leonard Ewbank borrowed a Lord Byron poetry collection from ...

The name Lord Byron instantly brings to mind scandal, heartbreak, and that unforgettable description: “mad, bad, and dangerous to know.” Those words came from Lady Caroline Lamb herself. When they met ...

George Gordon, Lord Byron, born in 1788, died in Greece on April 19, 1824 — ill from the systematic abuse of his health in his frantic-paced life, a bad fever, and the misdoctoring of bloodletting. He ...

Frankenstein fans have been furious with Guillermo del Toro's decision to include a quote from Lord Byron in the film. Is the ...