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[[image:Lord_Byron_in_Albanian_dress.jpg width="228" height="359" align="left" caption=""Mad, bad and dangerous to know" - Lady Caroline Lamb"]]George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron
Poet, revolutionary, aristocrat, adulterous playboy and scandal-plagued celebrity, George Gordon (born George Gordon Byron, later George Gordon Noel) was one of the greatest English Romantics and one of the most famous men of 19th century Europe.

// "What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little." //
Byron was unquestionably flamboyant, emotional, controversial, brilliant, adventurous, restless and passionate. He was accused of being bisexual and an atheist, and may well have been. He was acquainted with many, if not most, of the most famous thinkers and artists in Europe, during his life, and the writer John Cam Hobhouse said of him "No man lived who had such devoted friends."

__Explorations into the life of Lord Byron__

 * The Birth, Life and Death of Lord Byron


 * Byron's Europe, 1788-1824


 * "Such Devoted Friends" - The Many Loves and Loyal Friends of George Gordon Byron


 * 'Darkness' (1816)


 * The Romantic Poetry of Lord Byron - Themes and Analysis


 * Critical Reception - Past and Present


 * The Archetype of the 'Byronian Hero' in Don Juan


 * Byron as Marxist - 'Poem'


 * Byron on Women - 'Poem'


 * 'Fragment of a Novel' and the Birth of Modern Horror


 * The Continuing Influence of Lord Byron


 * Poet, Rockstar - Byron and Morrison?


 * References

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