Who is Lord Byron?
George Gordon, Lord Byron was one of the foremost English Romantic poets. He contributed to the Romantic genre not only through his poetry, but also through the way he led his life, and a staple character of Romantic fiction, the Byronic hero, is named after him. Lord Byron embodied the Romantic ideals of passionate, if sometimes illicit, romantic love, mystery, a melancholy temperament, and nationalist fervor. He spent the last year of his life in Greece, where he had fully invested himself in the Greek war of independence against the Ottoman Empire.
