ByronBytes

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…

In 1803, at the age of fifteen, George Byron acquired a puppy – ‘Born in Newfoundland’. He called the dog Boatswain. This raises a vast number of questions – the viable answers to some of which …

Born on 8 th November 1723, the second son of William 4 th Lord Byron and Hon. Frances Berkeley, John Byron was educated at Westminster school and joined the Navy in September 1731. He sailed …