"What bisexual English poet wrote ""Don Juan"" and ""She Walks in Beauty""?"
She Walks in Beauty She Walks in Beauty "She Walks in Beauty" is a short lyrical poem in iambic tetrameter written in 1813 by Lord Byron, and is one of his most famous works. It is said to have been inspired by an event in Byron's life; while at a ball, Byron saw Mrs. Anne Beatrix Wilmot, the wife of his cousin, Robert Wilmot. He was struck by her unusual beauty, and the next morning the poem was written. It is thought that she was the first inspiration for his unfinished epic poem about Goethe, a personal hero of his. In this unpublished work,
She Walks in Beauty various composers over time, including Roger Quilter, Gerald Finzi, Jean Coulthard, Isaac Nathan, Nicolas Flagello, Connor J. Koppin and Chanticleer Men's Chorus Conductor/Composer Eric Barnum. The first line of British rock band Suede's song "Heroine" is "She walks in beauty, like the night." The first four lines of the poem are recited by Major Charles Winchester, played by David Ogden Stiers, in the 1979 "M*A*S*H" episode "Ain't Love Grand". Also in an episode of "The Cosby Show" when mother, Clair Huxtable recites the poem to her former professor of Hillman College. Part of the poem is recited by Cleaver Greene,