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British poet

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and the Birth of Frankenstein
On January 1, 1818, a small London publisher printed 500 copies of Frankenstein;...
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Why Did Early Critics Hate The Death of Sardanapalus?
Eugène Delacroix painted The Death of Sardanapalus in 1826 or 1827, inspired...
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Images

Lord Byron
British Romantic poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, c. 1820.
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Newstead Abbey
The former home of Lord Byron, near Nottingham, Gedling, Nottinghamshire, England.
Andy Jakeman
Portrait of Lord Byron
Lord Byron began writing the first cantos of his autobiographical poem Childe...
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Villa Diodati
In the summer of 1816 Lord Byron rented this villa in Cologny, Switzerland, where...
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Giacomo Trécourt: Lord Byron on Shore of the Hellenic Sea
Lord Byron on Shore of the Hellenic Sea, oil on canvas by Giacomo Trécourt,...
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