He died from a fever contracted while in Messolonghi in Greece. He later travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero.

Byron served as a regional leader of Italy's revolutionary organization, the Carbonari, in its struggle against Austria. He was notably described by Lady Caroline Lamb as 'mad, bad, and dangerous to know'. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential, both in the English-speaking world and beyond.īyron's notabilty rests not only on his writings but also on his life, which featured upper-class living, numerous love affairs, debts, and separation. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. George Gordon Byron (invariably known as Lord Byron), later Noel, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale FRS was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential, both in the English-speaking world and beyond. poem: She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies And all thats best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, We'll Go No More a-Roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. Lord Byron, or George Gordon Byron, was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. He was struck by her unusual beauty, and the next morning the poem was written. The work opens with the now-famous lyric, She Walks in Beauty, written in 1814 after Byron saw a cousin at a party wearing a dress of mourning with spangles on it. Anne Beatrix Wilmot, wife of Byron's first cousin, Sir Robert Wilmot. On June 11, 1814, Byron attended a party in London. It is said to have been inspired by an event in Byron's life.

She Walks in Beauty is a short lyrical poem in iambic tetrameter written in 1814 by Lord Byron, and is one of his most famous works.

She walks in beauty like the night poem