Byron: A Life in Ten Letters; by Andrew Stauffer; Cambridge University Press; 300 pp., $29.95 It is hard to imagine that the manuscript contained anything more shocking than what we already know about ...

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 ...

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 ...

ITALY in the spring of 1819 was the setting of what many have regarded as Byron’s most important love. At a party in Venice in April, Byron was introduced to Countess Teresa Guiccioli. The attraction ...

An exceptionally rare letter from the original “Wild Child” and poet Lord Byron that has never been published before has been discovered in a country house. The letter was found in a mansion in ...

In actual Regency London — nothing like the frothy, fantastical setting of TV’s “Bridgerton” — poets rivaled royalty for star power, and upon the publication of his poem “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” ...

Indiana Supreme Court opinions don't typically start with a reference to Romantic era poets — in fact, it’s a safe bet a recent ruling Chief Justice Loretta Rush framed with an ode Lord Byron penned ...