Byron himself is to be found in the usual first-hand sources of biography, and especially in his letters. For unlike the popular narratives—whether novel or biography—the letters enable us to feel ...

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 ...

CANON FODDER: The English Romantic poet John Clare (1793-1864) spent the last 27 years of his life in asylums. His work features multiple poetic personas, ranging from the voice of an open field ...

George Gordon Byron, sixth baron of that title, is certainly a poet who stands in that rarefied company, though it's hard to believe that even the linguistic laurels represented by the now commonplace ...

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 ...

Sam Hirst works as a research fellow at Nottingham University in a collaboration with Newstead Abbey where some of these items are held. They receive funding from AHRC. It’s July 5 1807. A drunk and ...