Byron, George Gordon - Lord Byron

Read the collected Lord Byron poems.

Read about Lord Byron, from "A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature."

Read "The Life of Lord Byron," by John Galt.

Many scholars say that the Romantic period began with the publication of "Lyrical Ballads" by William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge in 1798. The volume contained some of the best-known works from these two poets including Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and Wordsworth's "Lines Written a Few Miles from Tintern Abbey."

In the Romantic period in British literature, poets like Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats reflected the revolution and creative spirit of the age. Read poetry from the Romantic period.

Read "She Walks in Beauty."

In "Three Vampire Tales," a new collection edited by Anne Williams, famous vampire works: Bram Stoker's "Dracula," Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla," and John Polidori's "The Vampire." This anthology also features "Lord Byron's "The Giaiour," Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Christabel," James Malcom Rhymer's "Varney the Vampire," and more.

(1788-1824) British writer. George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron was one of the English "Romantics." His works include: "Don Juan," "Manfred," "Marino Faliero," "Sardanapalus," "The Two Foscari," and "Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage." Read about Byron's life.

Gothic Literature, covering the period from approximately 1764 to 1840, features the works of Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, Edgar Allan Poe, M. R. James, Emily Bronte, and more writers. Read more about Gothic literature.

"It is in the contrast between his august conceptions of man, and his contemptuous opinions of men, that much of the almost incomprehensible charm, and power, and enchantment, of his poetry consists. -John Wilson"

"The democratization of anger meant that learning to marshal the outrage of the populace took on radically new urgency, and the periodicals were there to step into the breach. By way of anger, the new medium discovered its demagogic powers."