Biography
George Gordon Byron was born in London in 1788 and, after inheriting the title of 6th Baron Byron at the age of ten, grew up in reduced circumstances; he was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. The first cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812), drawing on his travels through Portugal, Spain, Albania, Greece and the Ottoman Empire, made him famous overnight. Alongside narrative verse such as the satirical epic Don Juan, Byron also wrote dramatic poems meant for reading rather than performance, including Manfred (1817) and Cain (1821). Together with Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats, he belonged to the second generation of English Romantic poets. Byron died of a fever in Missolonghi in 1824, where he had joined the Greek struggle for independence from Ottoman rule.
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