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30 unusual facts about Lord Byron


Al Bano and Romina Power

The song "Settembre" featured the voice of their baby daughter Cristel, while for "Lord Byron" they used recordings of Byron's poetry by Tyrone Power.

Albaro

For a period, it was Lord Byron's official residence, when the romantic poet lived in Genoa.

ALPHA 60

Leonidas Aretakis has himself cited a few lyrical references, amongst others some figures in the Romantic and Neo-romantic movements, such as Friedrich Hölderlin, William Blake, Lord Byron, Rainer Maria Rilke and Georg Trakl, and the sometimes dreamlike storytelling of H.P. Lovecraft and Jorge Luis Borges.

Annesley

Annesley Old Church was mentioned by Lord Byron and D. H. Lawrence, two literary figures of importance who lived in Nottinghamshire.

Bodystocking

The first notable occasion, was when American actress Adah Isaacs Menken wore one in 1861 in the play Mazeppa, based on Byron's "Mazeppa", in which she played a Polish man who was tied nude to the back of a wild horse by his enemies.

Broder Knudtzon

After a brief visit to his sister in Nantes, he relocated to England, where he came in contact with poet Lord Byron and other leading figures in the national liberal movement.

Château Chasse-Spleen

One account explaining the estate's name is due to a visit by Lord Byron in 1821, when he became so enamoured by the vines that he said, "Quel remede pour chasser le spleen", or alternately attributed to the poem Spleen whose author Charles Baudelaire once visited the property.

Dusán Mukics

In the Porabski koledar 2011 was published poems in Prekmurian from Lord Byron, János Arany, Géza Csáth and Johann Wolfgang Goethe.

Edward Chandos Leigh

Leigh started playing cricket as a boy at Stoneleigh Abbey after his father Lord Leigh, Lord Byron's schoolmate at Harrow, established a cricket ground at his country estate at Stoneleigh Abbey in 1839 for his eldest son William Henry Leigh who was attending Harrow.

Edward Enfield

Other radio programmes have included; Double Vision with Miles Kington, Free Spirits and Enfield Pedals after Byron in which he cycled through Greece, following in the footsteps of Lord Byron.

Georgy Adamovich

After the 1917 Revolution Adamovich worked for The World Literature publishing house (founded by Maxim Gorky in 1919), translating the works of Charles Baudelaire, Voltaire, José-Maria de Heredia, Lord Byron and Thomas Moore.

Gilliam v. American Broadcasting

In 1816 Lord Byron obtained an injunction from an English court that prevented publication of a book that was said to contain only Byron's poems, but in fact contain some poems by others.

Giovanni Battista Lusieri

Lord Byron regarded him as an important Italian artist, although he may have been biased as he was also the good friend of Lusieri's brother-in-law, Nicolo Giraud.

Glenarvon

Its rakish title character, Lord Ruthven, is an unflattering depiction of her ex-lover, Lord Byron.

Guise Will Be Guise

In an essay comparing the character of Angel to "melancholy loner" Lord Byron, Amy-Chinn points out that Angel's obsession with his appearance - a running joke in the series - is overtly mocked in this episode, when the swami asks Angel why he dresses in black and drives a black convertible, despite

Jørgen von Cappelen Knudtzon

They travelled around together in Europe, meeting Napoleon, Lord Byron and the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen.

Kirkby Mallory

Ada Byron, daughter of Lord Byron and colleague of Charles Babbage, lived in the now demolished Kirkby Hall during her childhood with her mother, Annabella Milbanke.

Koplik

Koplik is the starting point for hikers wishing to explore the literary famous Malsia e Madhe, translated in English as the 'Great Highlands' which receive much literary attention most famously in the travels of the early female anthropologist Edith Durham in her book High Albania as well as others including Lord Byron, Margaret Hasluck and many native figures.

Lunxhëri

Lucca Vaya, physician to Ali Pasha, afterwards to Prince Mavrocordato; educated in Vienna, he was among those treating Lord Byron at Missolonghi.

Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains

Samian sweet dessert wines are known worldwide and have motivated poets such as Lord Byron to write a poem in which he says "Fill high the bowl with Samian wine".

Newstead railway station

Newstead Abbey, the ancestral home of Lord Byron is about two to three miles away and is served by this station.

Newstead, New York

In 1831, the town's name was changed to "Newstead", reportedly on the advice of Abigail Fillmore, who was fond of the poetry of Lord Byron.

Pyotr Veinberg

In 1854 in Odessa a small compilation of his translations from Horace, André Chénier, Victor Hugo and Lord Byron came out.

Roger Boutet de Monvel

Using the same publisher La vie de Lord Byron (Lord Byron's life) came into print in 1924, followed in 1929 by La vie martial du Bailli de Suffren (The Taskmaster of the Suffren's martial life), for which his brother Bernard did the advertising poster.

Sintra

The earliest documents describe a built-up town in the 11th century by the Arab geographer Al-Bacr (who was later supported by the poets Luís de Camões and Lord Byron).

In 1809 Lord Byron wrote to his friend Francis Hodgson, "I must just observe that the village of Cintra in Estremadura is the most beautiful in the world."

Strange Company

The most recent Strange Company release is a short film adaptation of a Lord Byron poem entitled, "When We Two Parted.", which was featured on the front page of YouTube UK upon its release.

The Linear Scaffold

# "When the Moon Is on the Wave" – 7:24 (lyrics from a poem written by Lord Byron)

Władysław Ostrowski

Later he tried his skills in poetry (he translated Lord Byron's poems).

Yvonne Gilan

She had an unusual take on his character: "Are you a romantic, Mr. Fawlty..? Well, I think you are. I think beneath that English exterior throbs a passion that would make Lord Byron look like a tobacconist."


1815 in poetry

Lord Byron, Hebrew Melodies, including "She Walks in Beauty", "The Destruction of Sennacherib" published in April with musical settings; though expensive at a cost of one guinea, over 10,000 copies sell; by summer, an edition of Byron's poems without the musical settings is published.

1817 in literature

The year 1817 in literature involved some significant new books, including Walter Scott's Rob Roy, Lord Byron's Manfred, Hegel's Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, and the death of Jane Austen and posthumous publication of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.

Charles Caleb Colton

In 1822, Colton re-published a previous work on Napoleon, with extensive additions, under the title of The Conflagration of Moscow. In Paris he printed An Ode on the Death of Lord Byron for private circulation and continued to write.

Charles Francis Coghlan

Buckstone passed on the play, but instead gave him the chance to play Monsieur Mafoi, a small role in “The Pilgrim of Love” a play adapted by Lord Byron from Irving’s “Legends of the Alhambra” that opened at the Haymarket on, April 9, 1860.

Eton v Harrow

Lord Byron played for Harrow in the 1805 match, Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis for Harrow in Fowler's match in 1910, Bolo Whistler for Harrow in 1916, Alec Douglas-Home for Eton in 1921 and 1922, Terence Rattigan for Harrow in 1929 and Henry Blofeld for Eton in 1955.

Federico Cantú Garza

He was especially fond of 15th-century French poet François Villon, but also read much of the work of Alfonso Reyes, Renato Leduc, Efraín Huerta, Jean Nicolas, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Valéry, Lord Byron, Goethe, André Malraux, and Paul Éluard .

Gabrielle Krauss

Italy first saw Krauss in Naples in 1872, when she created a role in Errico Petrella's Manfredo, an opera based on Lord Byron's poem Manfred.

Ghosts of Albion

His words are soon confirmed when they are soon introduced to the ghosts of the poet Lord Byron (Joseph McFadden), Admiral Nelson (Anthony Daniels), and Queen Bodicea (Emma Samms), also mystical protectors of Albion.

Greta Hall

Greta Hall was visited by a number of the Lake Poets and other literary figures including William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sir Walter Scott, Sir George Beaumont, Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb 1802, Thomas De Quincey and John Ruskin.

Improvisatori

Despite heavy Continental European interest in the improvvisatori, the poets were most enthusiastically admired in England, where they influenced the poets Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Laetitia Landon, among others.

Ladies of Llangollen

Their house became a haven for visitors, mostly writers such as Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott, but also the military leader the Duke of Wellington and the industrialist Josiah Wedgwood; aristocratic novelist Caroline Lamb, who was born a Ponsonby, came to visit too.

Marshall MacDermott

At Argostoli, in the island of Cephalonia, he became acquainted with Lord Byron, who entrusted him with the three last cantos of Don Juan, to be delivered to Sir John Cam Hobhouse, a commission which MacDermott executed, having just then obtained leave of absence in order to visit England.

Rhine romanticism

Lord Byron made the Rhine area enormously popular in England in 1818 with his verse narrative, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

Romanticism and the French Revolution

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley all shared the same view of the French Revolution as it being the beginning of a change in the current ways of society and helping to better the lives of the oppressed.

Ruddington Hall

Ruddington Hall has the distinction of being included in the art work of Nikolaus Pevsner alongside the Elizabethan Wollaton Hall and Newstead Abbey, ancestral home of Lord Byron.

Samuel Barff

His reputation for honour, kindliness, and fairness, is expressed in a series of letters addressed to him from Missolonghi by Lord Byron early in 1824, which are preserved in Moore's ‘Life of Lord Byron.’ Barff was counted on to manage funds and provide support for Englishmen in Greece.

The First Kiss of Love

The First Kiss of Love is a poem written in 1806 by Lord Byron.

Thomas Noel, 2nd Viscount Wentworth

The union did not produce any children, although Wentworth had fathered an illegitimate son, Thomas (1774–1853), who became rector of Kirkby Mallory and performed the marriage ceremony of his cousin, Anne Isabella to Lord Byron in 1815.

Zhdanov Doctrine

Earlier some critics and literary historians were denounced for suggesting that Russian classics had been influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Molière, Lord Byron or Charles Dickens.