Lord Byron Lord Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was a British poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems "Don Juan" and "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage": many of his shorter lyrics in "Hebrew Melodies" also became popular. He travelled extensively across Europe, especially in Italy, where he lived for seven years in the cities of Venice, Ravenna and Pisa. During his stay
Lord Byron in popular culture visit 1813 and meet her idol, Byron. He appears in a parallel story line in the novel "The Fire" by Katherine Neville. Byron is also a minor character in the ninth novel of L.A. Meyer's Bloody Jack series "The Mark of the Golden Dragon". In the short story "The Writer's Child" by Tad Williams—collected in the anthology "The Sandman: Book of Dreams" edited by Neil Gaiman and Ed Kramer—Byron is depicted as reincarnated as a child's teddy bear. Described as "clubfoot" for having one leg shorter than the other, and called separately, "young lord" and simply "Byron", it is not