This Everyman's Library Pocket Poets edition contains a full selection of Byron's work, including his lyric verse, narrative verse, poems from Hours of Idleness, "Occasional Pieces," and an index of first lines.
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788–1824) was born in London; at the age of ten, upon his father's death, he became the sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale. Forced to leave England in the wake of scandal, he spent years living in Italy and elsewhere in Europe; he died at Missolonghi in Greece after contracting a fever while fighting with the Greeks against the Ottoman Empire.

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This Everyman's Library Pocket Poets edition contains a full selection of Byron's work, including his lyric verse, narrative verse, poems from Hours of Idleness, "Occasional Pieces," and an index of first lines.

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GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788–1824) was born in London; at the age of ten, upon his father's death, he became the sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale. Forced to leave England in the wake of scandal, he spent years living in Italy and elsewhere in Europe; he died at Missolonghi in Greece after contracting a fever while fighting with the Greeks against the Ottoman Empire.