"Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey." Lord Byron did not write this line for a greeting card. He wrote it for a grieving man confessing his sins to a friar. The poem is dark.

ITALY in the spring of 1819 was the setting of what many have regarded as Byron’s most important love. At a party in Venice in April, Byron was introduced to Countess Teresa Guiccioli. The attraction ...

Lord Byron—or George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, to give him his full name—was one of the defining figures of the Romantic movement. Two of his most famous works are Don Juan (1819 – 1824), a ...

THREE years after Byron’s death the Contessa Teresa Guiccioli, the object of the poet’s last, longest, and perhaps deepest, attachment, wrote to Charles F. Barry that his letters to her were “a ...