Lord Byron
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George Noel Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, was a British poet. He was one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest British poets. Among his best-known
Portrait of Lord Byron, c. 1813
An engraving of Byron's father, Captain John "Mad Jack" Byron, date unknown
Catherine Gordon, Byron's mother, by Thomas Stewardson
John FitzGibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare
Don Juan (poem)
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Don Juan is an English unfinished satirical epic poem written by Lord Byron between 1819 and 1824 that portrays the Spanish folk legend of Don Juan, not as a womaniser as historically portrayed, but a
Lord Byron
…major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest British poets. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narratives Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular. Byron was educated at Trinity College at the University…
Frontispiece illustration of a bust of Lord Byron in the 1824 edition of Don Juan. (Benbow publisher)
Hendrik Scheffer, Don Juan asleep on Haidée's lap, c. 1827
The Shipwreck of Don Juan by Eugène Delacroix, 1840
Finding of Don Juan by Haidee, 1873, by Ford Madox Brown