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Byron and the “Satanic School”: On the bicentennial of his death

People's World 19 Apr 2024
Byron, like Shelley and Keats, became the victim of an aggressive smear campaign by state and church, which exercised enormous power over public opinion.
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Lord Byron: The Romantic Poet Who Died for Greece

Greek Reporter 19 Apr 2024
Portrait of Lord Byron, one of the world’s greatest Philhellenes, by Phillips, 1813 ... Born in 1788, Gordon, who had the title of Lord Byron, became the leading figure of British Romanticism at the beginning of the 19th century.
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Clairmont tells the story of the woman Byron cast aside

The Conversation 10 Apr 2024
Two of the most prominent literary figures of the late Romantic period, Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley (and his soon-to-be wife Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin), met in a villa on Lake Geneva ... Byron and ...
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Lord Byron’s Commitment to “Liberation” and the Struggle against Colonial Oppression

GlobalResearch 08 Apr 2024
Byron’s collaboration with Shelley in exile in Italy and his experience of the liberation movement in Italy and Greece led to a better understanding of society and the revolutionary struggle of the people.
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'And now I give her my life” - The death of Lord Byron and the birth of Modern Greece

Iowa City Press-Citizen 05 Apr 2024
After visiting the battlefield of Waterloo (more in my May column), Byron traveled along the Rhine to Switzerland − where he hosted Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley - at the time when Mary was writing ...
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He seduced hundreds of women (as well as a few men) and had a child ...

The Daily Mail 03 Mar 2024
Byron’s suggestion that ‘we will each write a ghost story’ was the impetus for Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein, the novel regarded as the first ever work of science-fiction and a powerful parable on the dangers of playing God.
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A free spirit: Clairmont, by Lesley McDowell, reviewed

The Spectator 27 Feb 2024
But Byron and Shelley? Beastly to women, negligent as parents, destructive as friends, oblivious to their own privilege ... Shelley would drown in 1822 and Byron would die two years later, but Claire lived until 1879.
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Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer – promiscuous, comedic and ‘darkly charismatic’

The Irish Times 27 Feb 2024
Byron ... With Notices of His Life, the first big Byron biography ... Self-exiled in Switzerland and Italy, Byron befriended Percy Bysshe Shelley, and fathered an illegitimate daughter by Claire Clairmont, stepsister of Shelley’s wife, Mary Godwin ... Byron.
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Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer review – wrong but Romantic

The Guardian 21 Feb 2024
Byron was, as Lady Caroline Lamb famously wrote, “mad, bad and dangerous to know”, ... How seriously the Keatses and the Shelleys and the Wordsworths took themselves; not George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron.
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The Oscars Unwittingly Celebrate Sexual Morality With Poor Things

The American Spectator 18 Feb 2024
The marriage plans are thwarted by Godwin’s lawyer, Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a dandy who takes after Shelley’s friend, Lord Byron ... Poor Things, then, is arguably more evocative of Mary Wollstonecraft than Mary Shelley.
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Byron’s war on tranquillity

New Statesman 14 Feb 2024
... had he not died when he did, the future of this liaison might have shown us a very different Byron (Shelley evidently thought this could be the case when he visited Byron in Ravenna in 1821).
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Forget Flowers, 18th Century Romantics Gave Their Actual Hearts

Ancient Origins 14 Feb 2024
Italian law required the cremation of a drowning victim’s body, so Shelley’s corpse was laid upon a funeral pyre on the shores of the sea, with literary luminaries such as Lord Byron and Leigh Hunt in attendance.
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Forget flowers, the greatest gift for 18th century romantics was the heart of a deceased lover

The Conversation 13 Feb 2024
Italian law required the cremation of a drowning victim’s body, so Shelley’s corpse was laid upon a funeral pyre on the shores of the sea, with literary luminaries such as Lord Byron and Leigh Hunt in attendance.
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Sarojini Naidu’s soul was rooted in Hyderabad; City must preserve her heritage

The Siasat Daily 12 Feb 2024
Here lies the environment that sparked her imagination and developed her art. Yet no edifice stands today that houses her works ... She has written ... But he instructed her to stop imitating the English poets Shelley, Keats, Byron, and Wordsworth ... .
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