George Gordon Byron
Poem of the week: Love and Death by Lord Byron
Both Romantic and realist, what is thought to be the poet’s final work is a passionate declaration of unrequited love
Carol Rumens
11, Oct, 2021 @9:22 AM
Cambridge college bans swimming at literary skinny-dipping spot
Petition signed by 8,000 after King’s College takes ‘reluctant’ step on River Cam at Grantchester Meadows
Matthew Weaver
02, Jul, 2021 @1:32 PM
Revealed: Lord Byron’s £4,000 cheque that helped create modern Greece
The poet’s generosity 200 years ago helped to pave the way to independence, and he is still seen as a hero
Helena Smith in Athens
18, Apr, 2021 @5:30 AM
The Private Life of Lord Byron by Antony Peattie review – portrait of a paradox
The received image of Byron is decisively reframed
Peter Conrad
06, Oct, 2019 @10:00 AM
Weatherwatch: Lord Byron's account of a Venetian storm
Poet described ‘heavy Squall’ that put his gondola in peril in August 1819 letter
Tim Radford
21, Aug, 2019 @8:30 PM
In a squall on Lake Geneva in 1819, Shelley has no fear of drowning
In a vivid letter to his publisher, Lord Byron describes the courage of the English romantic poet
Tim Radford
24, Jun, 2019 @8:30 PM
Marilyn Monroe's basket, Picasso's box and a Fabergé pot in Sotheby's sale
Eccentric auction items come from the North Yorkshire home of avid collectors Christopher Cone and Stanley J Seeger
Mark Brown Arts correspondent
26, Oct, 2018 @5:15 PM
From EM Forster to Mamma Mia! Why we can't resist the Mediterranean
Sunshine, sensuality, and a dash of danger... the ‘warm south’ has fascinated writers and artists for hundreds of years. But why are the Brits so obsessed?
Robert Holland
11, Aug, 2018 @10:00 AM
First edition of Ada Lovelace's pioneering algorithm sold for £95,000
Rare book by ‘world’s first computer programmer’ contains a groundbreaking method for calculating Bernouilli numbers
Alison Flood
24, Jul, 2018 @1:23 PM
In Byron’s Wake by Miranda Seymour – the Lord’s ladies
Byron’s wife and daughter - Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace – can’t escape the shadow of the great libertine in this in-depth account of their lives
Rachel Cooke
18, Mar, 2018 @7:00 AM
Up in smoke: should an author's dying wishes be obeyed?
Harper Lee never wanted Go Set a Watchman brought out, Sylvia Plath’s diary was burned by Ted Hughes – the controversial world of literary legacies
Blake Morrison
10, Mar, 2018 @10:00 AM
Kingsley Amis was spied on – but he’s in the best literary company
MI5 kept tabs on Amis, who joins Byron, Wordsworth, Orwell and Iris Murdoch as having been suspected of espionage
John Dugdale
01, Dec, 2017 @2:00 PM
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