Byron the poet biography assignments

Lord Byron

(British Poet, Politician, and a Leading Figure in the Romantic Movement)

Full name: George Gordon Byron

Date of birth: 22 January 1788

Place of birth: London, England

Date of death: 19 April 1824 (aged 36)

Place of death: Missolonghi, Aetolia, Ottoman Empire (present-day Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece)

Resting place: Church of St.

Mary Magdalene, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.

Occupation: Poet, politician

Nationality: English

Spouse: Anne Isabella Byron, Baroness Byron (m. 1815–1816)

Children: Ada Lovelace, Allegra Byron, Elizabeth Medora Leigh

Early Life

Lord Byron, in full George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron was born on January 22, 1788, in London, England He was a British Romantic poet and satirist whose poetry and personality captured the imagination of Europe.

Renowned as the “gloomy egoist” of his autobiographical poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812–18) in the 19th century, he is now more generally esteemed for th