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	Lord George Gordon Byron - Biography and Works
		Byron's influence on European poetry, music, novel, opera, and painting has been immense, although the poet was widely condemned on moral grounds by his contemporaries.
		George Gordon, Lord Byron, was the son of Captain John Byron, and Catherine Gordon.
		Byron spent his early childhood years in poor surroundings in Aberdeen, where he was educated until he was ten.
	www.online-literature.com /byron (1335 words)

	BYRON, George Gordon Noel, sixth baron Byron
		George Gordon Noel Byron was an English poet and writer of the romantic movement.
		Byron was born with a club foot, and was teased throughout his life for this handicap.
		However, after Byron hinted to a friend that he'd had an affair with his own half-sister, he was forced into isolation for fear of the public's reaction.
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	Byron, George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		His father died in 1791, and Byron, born with a clubfoot, was subjected alternately to the excessive tenderness and violent temper of his mother.
		Byron was induced to interest himself in the cause of Greek independence from the Turks and sailed for Missolonghi, where he arrived in 1824.
		The verse tale Beppo is in the ottava rima (eight-line stanzas in iambic pentameter) that Byron later used for his acknowledged masterpiece Don Juan (1819–24), an epic-satire combining Byron’s art as a storyteller, his lyricism, his cynicism, and his detestation of convention.
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	Malaspina Great Books - George Gordon Lord Byron (1788)
		George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron (1788-1824), English poet, was born in London at 16 Holles Street, Cavendish Square, on the 22nd of January 1788.
		Lady Byron's charge, as reported by Mrs Beecher Stowe and upheld by the 2nd earl of Lovelace, is "non-proven." Mr Robert Edcome, in Byron: the Last Phase (1909), insists that Mary Chaworth was the real object of Byron's passion, and that Mrs Leigh was only shielding her.
		Byron had recently published some pro-Gallican stanzas, "On the 'Star of the Legion of Honour,'" in the Examiner (April 7), and it was felt by many that private dishonour was the outcome of public disloyalty.
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	George Gordon, Lord Byron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		George Gordon, who was to become the famous (and infamous) Lord Byron, was born in London in 1788.
		His second wife, Catherine Gordon of Gight, traced her ancestors back to King James I. Her only issue, George Gordon was born with a deformed foot, and Catherine took him to Scotland.
		Byron wrote that she was "the child of love - though born in bitterness, and nurtured in convulsion." One month after her birth, Annabella took the baby and moved back to her parents' home.
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	Byzant Biography - George Gordon Noel Byron
		George Gordon Byron, Sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale, was born on January 22, 1788 in London; he adopted the third name of 'Noel' in 1822 in order to be granted an inheritance from his mother-in-law.
		Byron was educated at Harrow, one of England's most prestigious schools, and while there in 1803, he fell in love with his distant and betrothed cousin, Mary Chaworth, who it is believed gave Byron the idealization of unattainable love of which he wrote so well.
		Byron easily won the friendship of her father and brother, the Counts Gamba, who gained him initiation into the secret society of the Carbonari, a political group with the goal of gaining Italy's independence from Austria.
	www.byzant.com /Mystical/Biography/Biographies.aspx?id=35 (1423 words)

	George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron at AllExperts
		Byron served as a regional leader of Italy's revolutionary organization the Carbonari in its struggle against Austria, and later travelled to fight against the Turks in the Greek War of Independence, for which the Greeks consider him a national hero.
		Byron was born in London, the son of Captain John "Mad Jack" Byron and of John's second wife Lady Catherine Gordon, heiress of Gight, Aberdeenshire.
		Byron initially refused to have anything to do with Claire, and would only agree to remain in her presence with the Shelleys, who eventually persuaded Byron to accept and provide for Allegra, the child she bore him in January 1817.
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	George Gordon Noel Byron
		Byron took her infant son to Aberdeen, Scotland, where they lived in lodgings on a meagre income; the captain died in France in 1791.
		Despite Byron's strong attachment to boys, often idealized as in the case of Edleston, his attachment to women throughout his life is sufficient indication of the strength of his heterosexual drive.
		Byron sold Newstead Abbey in the autumn of 1818 for £94,500, which cleared him of his debts, that had risen to £34,000, and left him with a generous income.
	www.dejaelaine.com /byron.php (1546 words)

	George Gordon Byron
		To improve and strengthen health of ten-year Byron the mother brought him to Scotland, where there was her ancestral estate on the seaside.
		The years of study in the aristocratic school for young lord Byron were darkened by the consciousness of their poverty, solitude and by the lameness, aggravated charlatan "treatment".
		Byron said that if the collection had had success he would have left the poetry forever, but now he wanted to prove the whole world that he was a poet indeed.
	www.articledashboard.com /Article/George-Gordon-Byron/102382 (701 words)

	Lord George Gordon Byron - Books and Biography
		Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) was the son of Captain John Byron, and Catherine Gordon of Gight, a self-indulgent, somewhat hysterical woman, who was his second wife.
		Byron married Anne Isabella Milbanke in 1815, and their daughter Ada was born in the same year.
		Byron lived with Teresa, Countess Guiccioli, in Venice, and followed her household to Ravenna.
	www.readprint.com /author-15/Lord-George-Gordon-Byron (1078 words)

	Shadow Poetry -- Resources -- Famous Poets -- Lord Byron
		English poet (George Gordon), was born in London at 16 Holles Street, Cavendish Square, on the 22nd of January 1788.
		Byron's life, as well as his work, was in constant turmoil.
		His doctors wanted to bleed him, which Byron resisted, saying "If bleeding were efficacious there would be a lot of healthy people on a battle field." Ultimately he became too weak to argue.
	www.shadowpoetry.com /resources/famous/byron/lord.html (519 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: George Gordon, Lord Byron
		Byron, her fortune having been dissipated by her husband, returned to Aberdeen with her son, and in 1791 her husband died in France (aged thirty-six).
		In 1794 George Gordon, on the death of the fifth Lord Byron’s grandson, became heir to the barony to which he succeeded in May 1798 and was brought back to England.
		In essence Byron experienced the usual educational programme of a British aristocrat, and the young nobleman prided himself at this stage for his prowess in cricket, boxing and swimming (achieved despite his lameness) as much as for his careless scribbling in verse.
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	Cordula's Web. George Gordon Byron
		Byron refused to have anything to do with Claire, and would only agree to be in her presence with the Shelleys, who eventually persuaded Byron to accept and provide for the child.
		Byron was deeply mourned by the Greeks and became a national hero (Viron, the Greek form of "Byron," is still a common boys' name in Greece).
		Byron was a strong swimmer and, in an effort to emulate Leander, swam the Hellespont.
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	George Gordon Byron — Poet Seers
		Lord Byron was active in many different fields of life including politics, he took his hereditary seat in the House of Lords in 1812.
		As well as poetry Byron took an interest in social issues in Parliament he often stood up for disadvantaged groups and was one of the few to support the Luddites.
		Byron had a deep love for animals, in particular he was devoted to his dog Botswain.
	www.poetseers.org /the_romantics/george-gordon-byron (261 words)

	Lord Byron
		Byron was famous in his lifetime for his love affairs with women and Mediterranean boys.
		George Gordon, Lord Byron, was the son of Captain John Byron, and Catherine Gordon of Gight, a self-indulgent, somewhat hysterical woman, who was his second wife.
		Byron's body was returned to England but refused by the deans of both Westminister and St Paul's.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /byron.htm (1357 words)

	Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Lord George Gordon Byron
		Byron expected to die in battle, in the same heroic manner as the "Byronic" characters of his poetry.
		Byron was born on January 22, 1788 with club foot.
		Byron was sent to Harrow, one of England's most prestigious schools, in London.
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	George Gordon, Lord Byron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Byron is swept into a romance with passionate and eccentric Lady Caroline Lamb, almost elopes, Hobhouse prevents the scandal, Byron replaces her with Lady Oxford.
		Apparently the marriage was doomed from the start, Lady Byron described as "unimaginative and humorless," leaves Byron in January 1816 to live with parents amidst rumors of Byron's bisexuality and his continuing affair with Augusta.
		April 1823, Byron is 35 years old, agrees to act as agent for London Committee, formed to aid Greeks in their struggle for independence from the Turks.
	bonefish.rsmas.miami.edu /femar/Members/Farmer/lordbyron.htm (872 words)

	(Lord) George Gordon Noel Byron - World's Greatest Classic Books
		Byron’s reputedly wild personal life is as renowned as his work.
		Byron is regarded today as the ultimate Romantic, whose name has entered the language to describe a man of brooding passion.
		George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) epitomized the Romantic poet.
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	glbtq >> literature >> Byron, George Gordon, Lord
		Lady Caroline Lamb, in revelations she made to Byron's wife, claimed that Byron confessed to her that he had had "unnatural" connections with his schoolfellows.
		These reveal that Byron, Hobhouse, and Matthews formed a circle with shared interests at Cambridge and were keenly aware of the harsh sanctions visited upon homosexuals in England in their day.
		On his return to England, Byron was devastated to learn of Edleston's death, and wrote a series of elegies, the so-called "Thyrza" poems, in which he affected to be mourning a female lover.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/byron_gg.html (867 words)

	Byron, George Gordon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		His travels during 1809-11 to Spain, Malta, Albania, and Greece provided material for Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-18), which presents in the pilgrim the prototype of the truly 'Byronic Hero', aloof, cynical, and rebellious; on publication of the first two cantos (1812) Byron was lionized by aristocratic and literary circles.
		Byron's poetry, although condemned on moral grounds, exerted great influence on Romantic poetry, music, the novel, opera, and painting in Britain and Europe.
		He was passionate for the cause of Greek liberation from the Ottoman Turks, and gave generously to the insurgent Greeks.
	lib.blcu.edu.cn /per/981/en/uk/byron.htm (329 words)

	Famous Scots - George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)
		Although he was born in England and he attended schools there from the age of ten onwards, Byron's mother was from the Gordon family in Aberdeen and he spent his formative years in Scotland.
		Byron was descended from King James I (after many generations) and he was named George Gordon Byron after his grandfather, George Gordon of Gight Castle in Aberdeenshire.
		Byron's marriage in 1815 to a Miss Milbanke proved to be a mistake and public ridicule of him as a man and a husband drove him from England - forever.
	www.rampantscotland.com /famous/blfambyron.htm (725 words)

	George Gordon, Lord Byron
		Byron sent copies to two of his friends, one of whom wrote back to say that he thought the poem To Mary was far too shocking to be read by the general public.
		Byron took Teresa, Countess Guicioli, as his mistress in 1819, and it was quite the scandal.
		Around this time, Byron and some of his school friends were staying in a former monastery, and they'd developed a habit (sorry) of dressing up as monks and drinking toasts from a monk's skull which they'd accidentally dug up.
	www.incompetech.com /authors/byron (1765 words)

	George Gordon Byron Life by E. H. Coleridge
		His eldest son, Captain John Byron, the poet's father, was a libertine by choice and in an eminent degree.
		On her way thither she gave birth to a son, christened George Gordon after his maternal grandfather, who was descended from Sir William Gordon of Gight, grandson of James I. of Scotland.
		In the spring of 1819 Byron met in Venice, and formed a connexion with an Italian lady of rank, Teresa (born Gamba), wife of the Cavaliere Guiccioli.
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	George Gordon Noel Byron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Only 500 copies of this first edition of the first two cantos were printed, and they sold within three days.
		Byron's fame--or notoriety--was much more than a literary event.
		This blend of passion and style exerted an enormous influence on nineteenth-century literature, society and culture.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/exhibits/treasures/english/byron.html (131 words)

	George Gordon, Lord Byron Collection An inventory of his collection at Syracuse University
		George Gordon (1788-1824), also known as Lord Byron, 6th Baron.
		The George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron) Collection comprises seven outgoing letters (recipients include Lorenzo Bartolini, John Hanson, Francis Hodgson, Thomas Moore, and John Murray), and two signed holograph manuscripts of the English poet (1788-1824).
		The manuscripts and three of the letters are bound in a full green morocco folio volume by Stikeman along with a cut autograph of Lord Byron, five engraved portraits, and an introduction to the collection by George S. Hellman.
	library.syr.edu /digital/guides/b/byron_gg.htm (358 words)

	Lord Byron
		George Gordon Byron, better known as Lord Byron (the sixth Baron Byron, if you're counting), was nothing if not the prototype of the conflicted Romantic hero.
		Byron's mother was considered coarse and frivolous by those who knew her, including her son.
		Byron was educated at Harrow School and the University of Cambridge.
	www.walrus.com /~gibralto/acorn/germ/GGByron.html (1036 words)

	Lord George Gordon Byron - Biography & Works
		George Gordon Noel Byron was born on 22 January 1788 in London.
		At the age of 10 he inherited the title Lord Byron from his uncle and he went back to England.
		Byron was also a satirist and his poetry captured the imagination of Europe.
	www.literaturecollection.com /a/lord-byron (206 words)

	George Gordon Byron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Byron breakfasted in the afternoon, they talked or read till six, went for a ride through the pine forests, dined at eight and so to talk again.
		One of Byron's characteristics could not have been missed by any visitor.
		For Michaelmas Day Byron regularly resolved to have a roast goose, and bought one; but by the time he had fattened it for a month the goose and he were such friends that the bird did not come to the table, and another was bought.
	www.purifymind.com /GeorgeByron.htm (247 words)

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