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Lord Byron

1788 - 1824

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George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer. He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest of English poets. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lord Byron has received more than 11,115,403 page views. His biography is available in 146 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 143 in 2019). Lord Byron is the 8th most popular writer (up from 42nd in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 32nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Writer.

He is most famous for his poetry, which includes Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Don Juan, and the Prisoner of Chillon.

Memorability Metrics

  • 11M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 87.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 146

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 21.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Childe Harold's pilgrimage
Translations into English, Modern Greek literature, Facsimiles
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was the poem which brought Lord Byron public recognition. He himself disliked the poem, because he felt it revealed too much of himself. In it a young man (called childe after the medieval term for a candidate for knighthood) travels to distant lands to relieve the boredom and weariness brought on by a life of dissipation. It is thought to be a comment on the post-Revolutionary and -Napoleonic generation, who were weary of war.
1812
Don Juan
Don Juan (Legendary character), Poetry, Fiction
Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where he is sold as a slave, and to Russia, where he becomes a favourite of the Empress Catherine who sends him on to England. Written entirely in ottava rima stanza form, Byron's Don Juan blends high drama with earthy humour, outrageous satire of his contemporaries (in particular Wordsworth and Southey) and sharp mockery of Western societies, with England coming under particular attack.
1819
Poems
English Poets, Correspondence, Diaries
1800
The works of Lord Byron
English literature, Bibliography, Accessible book
1800
1800
The poetical works of Lord Byron
Description and travel, Biography, History
1800

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lord Byron ranks 8 out of 7,302. Before him are Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and J. R. R. Tolkien. After him are Voltaire, Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Sophocles, and Franz Kafka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Lord Byron ranks 1. After him are Arthur Schopenhauer, Sarah Baartman, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Princess Augusta of Bavaria, Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, Jean-Victor Poncelet, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Princess Wilhelmine of Baden, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, and Étienne Cabet. Among people deceased in 1824, Lord Byron ranks 1. After him are Louis XVIII of France, Eugène de Beauharnais, Théodore Géricault, Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, Anne Catherine Emmerich, Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Agustín de Iturbide, James Parkinson, Giovanni Battista Viotti, Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, and Rama II of Siam.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lord Byron ranks 6 out of 8,785. Before him are Isaac Newton (1643), Adam Smith (1723), William Shakespeare (1564), Charles Darwin (1809), and Elizabeth II (1926). After him are Charlie Chaplin (1889), Francis Bacon (1561), Elizabeth I of England (1533), John Locke (1632), Winston Churchill (1874), and James Watt (1736).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Lord Byron ranks 2. Before him are William Shakespeare (1564). After him are Agatha Christie (1890), Charles Dickens (1812), Jane Austen (1775), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), Daniel Defoe (1660), Emily Brontë (1818), Virginia Woolf (1882), Charlotte Brontë (1816), Lewis Carroll (1832), and Mary Shelley (1797).

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