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I Think That We Have Done Him Proud Today!
"That is an interesting subject Amy, especially as the Scots appear to have made no claim on him and the English probably wish they could 'unclaim' him. Thank God that the Greeks love him!"Tee"His...
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'Still Let Me Love!'
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year'Tis time this heart should be unmoved,Since others it hath ceased to move:Yet though I cannot be beloved,Still let me love!My days are in the yellow leaf;The...
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'As He is Dead' Byron Pays Tribute to John Keats...
"I Have Never Concealed a Single Thought that Tempted Me"Byron on the Poet John KeatsIs it true - what Shelley writes me that poor John Keats died at Rome of the Quarterly Review?I am very sorry for it...
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A Little Fame for February!
Although today is my birthday, it also happens to have been rather a momentous day in the life of our poet for it was on this day Thursday February 27 1812 that he was make to his maiden speech in the...
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A Lady's Eye is On Childe Harold...
Thus Harold deemed, as on that Lady's eyeHe looked, and met its beam without a thought,Save Admiration glancing harmless by:Love kept aloof, albeit not far remote,Who knew his Votary often lost and...
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In Search of a Dead Poet's Society... The Ramblings of a 'Regency' Recondite!
When the actress Sarah Miles was asked for her opinion about the famous Regency doyenne Lady Caroline Lamb she replied that Caro “was a woman born out of her time and was forced to suffer hugely...
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For Why Should We Mourn? 'Memento Mori' Lord Byron...
In MemoriamGeorge Gordon Noel ByronSixth Baron ByronBorn January 22 1788Died April 19 18241Bright be the place of thy soul!No lovelier spirit than thineE'er burst from its mortal control,In the orbs of...
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'All I Have Suffered Can Never Be Known' A Poet Leaves for a Life in Exile...
“My own Sweet Sis – the deeds are signed – so that is over. – All I have now to beg or desire on the subject is – that you will never mention not allude to Lady Byron’s name again in any shape – or on...
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'An Egregious Blunder' and Byron's Clarissa Harlowe
"I Have Never Concealed a Single Thought that Tempted Me"Byron shares his thoughts about Annabella Milbanke with Lady Melbourne...She seems to have been spoiled - not as children usually are - but...
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'Alone at Newstead Abbey'
My dearest Augusta, - When I stated in my last, that my intercourse with the world had hardened my heart, I did not mean from any matrimonial disappointment, no, I have been guilty of many absurdities,...
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Put the Kettle On! It's Tee Time with Fellow Byronian Amy McLean!
‘Put the Kettle On! It’s Tee Time!’Today, I am enjoying a tea-break with Amy McLean who describes herself as 'Writer, Reviewer Bookworm, Spiritualist, YouTuber' and much more besides!Amy is also a...
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'Finding Her Own Voice' Christy Fearn, a Debut Novel and Newstead Abbey
Christy FearnThe Girl with the Byron TattooChristy Fearn is a self-confessed Byron nut.Her debut novel Framed explores the stocking knitter demonstrations of 1812 when folk rebelled against...
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Tracing Boyhood Footsteps: Brig o' Balgownie as Byron's Bridge
Though he didn't consider himself to be Scottish – the mere thought of being associated with such an accent was enough to make him suggest that he'd rather the country was “sunk in the sea” - even...
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No More A-Roving
I’m back in my adopted home of Venice after three weeks in Devon (where we’ve been decorating a holiday flat called “The Lisbon Packet”, but that’s another story!).Arriving after dark, tired and wet, I...
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'We Live in Byron's House... You Must Come to Dinner!'
With all its sinful doings I must say,That Italy’s a pleasant place to me.Veniceis one of the world’s most beautiful cities, and a very special place to live: except in August, when the city is bathed...
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Those flaxen locks, those eyes of blueBright as thy mother's in their hue;Those rosy lips, whose dimples playAnd smile to steal the heart away,Recall a scene of former joy,And touch thy father's heart,...
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“My mind wanted something craggy to break upon.”
The monastery islandof San Lazzaro degli Armeni is, perhaps, one of Venice’s more unusual tourist attractions. The working community of Armenian monks live in isolation from the world, since their...
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“He took me in his gondola across the laguna…”
A windowless, deformed and dreary pile;And on the top an open tower, where hungA bell, which in the radiance swayed and swung;We could just hear its hoarse and iron tongue:The broad sun sunk behind it,...
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'Our Home is in Piccadilly' Tee Bylo Unlocks the Door of Byron's House...
Perhaps the deadliest chill that ever fell on my heart was on the morning after my wedding day; he was late in appearing, but as soon as he came downstairs I went to him in the Library...With the most...
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226 Years Young! Tee Bylo Celebrates with a Ramble and a Slice or Two of...
Today our noble Poet is 226 years young and I'm celebrating with a slice or two of this delicious cake that was purchased in his honour! In 1821 and whilst living in Ravenna, Byron began a journal in...
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