ByronBytes

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Canto III (1816) A major continuation of his breakthrough work, reflecting his feelings of exile—following the scandalous events that forced the poet to leave …

Background Byron’s poetry reflected his understanding of the power of language. He stood for freedom of expression and was intolerant of censure by his publishers. “He was undou…

Augustus Darvell is an unfinished horror story written during the ‘ghost story’ competition held at Villa Diodati overlooking Lake Geneva in Switzerland in June 1816. Darvell is widely rega…

The oppressive and unseasonably cold and stormy weather of the ‘ Year Without a Summer’ in Switzerland inspired Byron to write Darkness – a poetic reflection of the actual ‘volcanic winter’ the…