Frosts, ice and snow in June, July and August? It happened one legendary summer — and it took scientists about 100 years to ...

Anthony Lane writes on Lord Byron, who died two hundred years ago this April, and about a new biography, “Byron: A Life in Ten Letters,” by Andrew Stauffer, and a new edition of Byron’s poetry.

FEW physicians, fresh from medical school, have undergone a more trying experience than John William Polidori, Lord Byron's traveling physician in 1816. With frustrations at every turn by the envir ...

Even before rumours of his affair with his half-sister spread, Lord Byron had a reputation for scandal. His lover Lady Caroline Lamb famously described him as “mad, bad and dangerous to know ...

The Villa Diodati, where Percy Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Lord Byron and John Polidori wrote ghost stories, eventually leading to the publishing of "Frankenstein" ...

Two hundred years after his death, the scandal-ridden, best-selling celebrity poet Gordon Byron Gordon, 6th Lord Byron, the most talked about literary figure of his generation, retains at least ...

Lord Byron (1788–1824) gave five different poems the title “Stanzas for Music” — simply as a generic name by which he meant either that he heard the rhythm of a melody while he wrote the poems, or ...

In some of the grandest rooms of Newstead Abbey - the former home of the romantic poet Lord Byron - rotting timbers and crumbling plaster from water ingress is causing concern for the Grade I ...

Lord Byron ’s brutal takedown of his wife and mother-in-law has been revealed in a newly discovered letter that provides fresh insight into his burnt memoirs.