George Gordon Byron, known as Lord Byron, was a British Romantic poet. His narrative poems, lyrics and verse dramas explore freedom, exile, passion and rebellion. His best-known works include Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Don Juan.
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George Gordon Byron was born in London on 22 January 1788. He spent part of his childhood in Scotland and later studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. He inherited the title of Baron Byron in 1798.
The first two cantos of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, published in 1812, brought him fame. His writing ranges from lyrical and dramatic poetry to the sustained satire of Don Juan. The solitary, defiant figures associated with his work helped shape the idea of the Byronic hero.
Byron left England in 1816 and lived in Switzerland and Italy. In 1823 he travelled to Greece to support its struggle for independence. He died of fever at Missolonghi on 19 April 1824.
