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Lady Caroline Lamb, once the lover of this poet, caricatured him as Lord Glenarvon in an 1816 novel |
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POETS |
2026-03-05 |
#9514 |
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In his classic "She Walks in Beauty", "all that's best of dark & bright meet in her aspect & her eyes" |
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POETRY |
2024-11-26 |
#9212 |
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Struck by the appearance of his cousin in a spangled mourning dress, he wrote, "She walks in beauty, like the night" |
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POETS & POETRY |
2019-05-14 |
#7992 |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "On the Death of" this poet mentions "that Harold's pilgrimage at last is o'er" |
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WOMEN POETS |
2018-04-06 |
#7735 |
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After part of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" was published, this lord "awoke one morning and found myself famous" |
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THE ROMANTIC POETS |
2015-12-18 |
#7195 |
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Don Juan, the teenage hero of a poem by this British lord, is "tall, handsome, slender, but well knit" |
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TEENS & POETRY |
2011-02-17 |
#6089 |
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Once popular, Thomas Moore is remembered for burning the memoirs of this famed poet who died in Greece |
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POPULAR POETS |
2010-09-22 |
#5983 |
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Coleridge said this poet will "not be remembered at all, except as a wicked lord who... pretended to be ten times more wicked than he was" |
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POETS ON POETS |
2010-04-29 |
#5909 |
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This poet took melancholy journeys like the ones in his long narrative poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" |
Lord Byron
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POETS & POETRY |
2008-09-17 |
#5523 |
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"Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" is this British lord's longest poem other than "Don Juan" |
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POETRY |
2008-02-11 |
#5396 |
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"Don Juan's parents lived beside the river, a noble stream, and call'd the Guadalquivir" |
Lord Byron
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NAME THAT POET |
2007-04-11 |
#5208 |
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In 1806, while still a teenager, this lord published "Fugitive Pieces", his first volume of poetry |
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POET-POURRI |
2007-03-20 |
#5192 |
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This poet baron who fought for Greek independence also fought Lord Elgin's removal of the Greek marbles |
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BRITISH POETS |
2006-07-20 |
#5049 |
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"Notwithstanding many hints to the contrary", he said, "I still maintain" Childe Harold "to be a fictitious personage" |
Lord Byron
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$400 |
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POETS & POETRY |
2003-05-08 |
#4314 |
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This romantic poet's name gave us an adjective for the type of hero he created--a brooding young man |
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POETS & POETRY |
2000-04-17 |
#3606 |
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"Ah, droop not, my oak!" wrote this lord in "To an Oak at Newstead" |
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$400 |
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POET-TREE |
1999-03-18 |
#3354 |
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"She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies" |
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$600 |
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NAME THE POET |
1999-02-18 |
#3334 |
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Lady Caroline Lamb, a married lover of this lord, called him "mad, bad and dangerous to know" |
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POETIC LICENSE |
1998-10-26 |
#3251 |
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In 1809 he took his seat in the House of Lords & began 2 years of travel in Portugal, Spain & Greece |
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POET-POURRI |
1998-05-12 |
#3167 |
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This "Don Juan" poet adopted a third given name, Noel, to receive an inheritance from his mother-in-law |
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POETS & POETRY |
1997-10-09 |
#3014 |
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This lord's long southern European trip furnished material for his "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" |
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POETS & POETRY |
1996-07-01 |
#2741 |
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Written in 1811, this lord's poem "Farewell To Malta" begins, "Adieu, ye joys of La Valette!" |
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$600 |
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BRITISH POETS & POETRY |
1996-04-04 |
#2679 |
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He began writing "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" during a visit to Albania |
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POETS & POETRY |
1994-12-30 |
#2380 |
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This lord wrote, "O God! It is a fearful thing to see the human soul take wing" |
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POETS |
1992-12-18 |
#1910 |
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His poetic drama "The Deformed Transformed" was unfinished when he died a hero in Greece in 1824 |
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POETRY |
1992-02-06 |
#1719 |
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Childe Harold is a gloomy & imperious youth who some feel this English poet based on himself |
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POETRY |
1991-01-28 |
#1481 |
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Not only did he write "Don Juan", he proved it was possible to swim the Hellespont by doing it himself |
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$600 |
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POETRY |
1989-11-15 |
#1198 |
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English poet who wrote, "She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies" |
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$400 |
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POETRY |
1988-11-08 |
#962 |