Lord George Gordon Noel Byron
Contents
Country
Great Britain
Birth - Death
1799 - 1924
Occupation
Poet
Notable Achievements
FRS
Description
Regarded as one of the greatest English poets of all time, George Gordon Byron was a flamboyant, passionate, and emotional individual who lived the model Romantic life. Inheriting a title and estate at the age of 8, he attended Trinity College, Cambridge and went on the usual Grand Tour of the continent. His series of crushes and loves on fellow students, and his discovery of the homoerotic male youth in art, were all reflected in his early amorous poems. Throughout his short life (he died at age 36), he lived a peripatetic life of travel, financial indebtedness, love, and scandal.
Byron became a celebrity with the publication of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812) and a slew of subsequent poems, including his masterpiece long poem 'Don Juan' (1819). He is considered the first celebrity poet of the modern ages and the greatest poet in world history.
