Saturday, April 19, 2008

Lord Byron died today – 184 years ago

Author (of the poems “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage” and “Don Juan”), inspiration for some musical things, and name-giver (of the Bridge of Sighs) George Gordon Byron was born on January 22, 1788 in London, England. He said, “Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down." [He must have been a competitor.]... Mr. Byron died on April 19, 1824 in Messolonghi, Greece.



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