Too hot to handle: Lord Byron (left) embarked on a series of affairs all over Europe. Images / Supplied / Getty Images Two hundred years ago, on April 19, 1824, Lord Byron died unexpectedly in Greece.

Andrew Stauffer’s new biography, Byron: A Life in Ten Letters, which starts each chapter with a letter from the poet’s own unsettled pen (and quotes empathetically from women’s letters, too), is ...

George Gordon Byron, sixth baron of that title, is certainly a poet who stands in that rarefied company, though it's hard to believe that even the linguistic laurels represented by the now commonplace ...

Happy the poet whose life and work remain so well-remembered that his name becomes an adjective. George Gordon Byron, sixth baron of that title, is certainly a poet who stands in that rarefied company ...

LORD Byron, the scandalous and wild romantic poet who regularly denounced Scotland in reaction to his strict Calvinist upbringing, yearned for the land of his childhood in the last days of his life.

It takes a biography of George Gordon Noel, the Sixth Lord Byron (1788-1824) to remind us of quite how radically the world of 200 years ago differs from our own modest arrangements. To read even a ...