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His life mired in scandal and excess, and his verse unparalleled, Lord Byron was amont the most celebrated - and vilified - of the Romantic poets. This audiobook presents a collection of Lord Byron's finest works, including Fragment of a Novel, Manfred, and Don Juan.
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About Lord Byron
Lord Byron (1788-1824), as the English poet
George Gordon Byron, sixth Baron Byron is commonly known, was the most
flamboyant and notorious of the Romantics and a leader of the era’s poetic
revolution. While pursuing a unconventional lifestyle of international travel,
risqué love affairs, and general debauchery, he produced massive amounts of beautiful,
emotion-stirring works. He died at the young age of 36 after falling ill while
commanding Greek troops in a fight for independence from the Ottoman Empire.
Though Lord
Byron was refused the honor of a burial at Westminster Abbey, as was custom for
someone of his stature, his memorial stone was finally placed in the abbey’s Poets’
Corner in 1969.