Two centuries on, Greece loves Byron more than ever
From the Guardian archive
The death of Lord Byron – archive, April 1824
March 2024
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters review – dispatches from a lusty life
Andrew Stauffer conveys the vigour and pace of the poet’s escapades with brio, but stumbles when he suggests Byron anticipated modern celebrity
February 2024
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer review – wrong but Romantic
An impressively rounded portrait of the raucous and manipulative poet, venereal scars and all
November 2021
Prized personal items of Lord Byron go on display in Edinburgh
Exhibition at city’s university explores poet’s links with Greece and support for its independence
October 2021
Carol Rumens's poem of the week
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
July 2021
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
April 2021
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
October 2019
The Private Life of Lord Byron by Antony Peattie review – portrait of a paradox
The received image of Byron is decisively reframed
August 2019
Weatherwatch
Weatherwatch: Lord Byron's account of a Venetian storm
Poet described ‘heavy Squall’ that put his gondola in peril in August 1819 letter
June 2019
Weatherwatch
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
October 2018
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
August 2018
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?
July 2018
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
March 2018
Book of the day
In Byron’s Wake by Miranda Seymour – the Lord’s ladies
Up in smoke: should an author's dying wishes be obeyed?
December 2017
Books blog
Kingsley Amis was spied on – but he’s in the best literary company
Rereading
’Tis a strange serpent – 10 of the most entertaining drinking bouts in literature
