Lord Byron, Corsair, Preface.

The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.

— Lord Byron on Poetry

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Lord Byron

About Lord Byron

George Gordon (Noel) Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22 1788 – April 19 1824), generally known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and leading figure in Romanticism. He was the father of the mathematician Ada Lovelace.