Compositions in outline from Lord Byron's "Manfred," and "Prisoner of Chillon,"

Abstract This book aims to extend our understanding of Lord Byron’s poetry—as opposed to his life and legend—by offering fifty very short discussions of his best poe...

John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton (1786–1869), politician and prolific memoirist, is today best remembered for his close friendship with Lord Byron, and as the inventor of the phr...

Jane Austen and Lord Byron are often presented as opposites, but here they are together at last. In Regency England he was the first celebrity author while she was a parsons daught...

For Byron, poetic achievement was always relative. Writing meant dwelling in an echo chamber of other voices that enriched and contextualised what he had to say. He believed that l...

John William Polidori (1795–1821) was, for a brief period, the personal physician to Lord Byron. Half Italian, he was the uncle of the Rossetti siblings, and it was William Michael...

John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton (1786–1869), politician and prolific memoirist, is today best remembered for his close friendship with Lord Byron, and as the inventor of the phr...

One of the greatest of all English common lawyers,Lord Atkin it was who asked the question in Donoghue v. Stevenson ‘Who then in law is my neighbour?’ which became the foundation o...