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
The Prisoner of Chillon
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The Prisoner of Chillon is the title poem of an 1816 collection by Lord Byron. "The Prisoner of Chillon" is a 392-line narrative poem that chronicles the imprisonment of Genevois monk François Bonivar
1816 first edition title page.
The castle dungeon is under Lake Geneva.
Prisoners were chained to the massive pillars in the dungeon.
The Prisoner of Chillon by Eugène Delacroix, 1834