Selected Poems by node

The quintessential Romantic poet, Byron embodied the passionate, scandalous spirit of his age. She Walks in Beauty captures celestial grace in a single evening's glance. Don Juan, his comic masterpiece, turns the legendary seducer into the seduced, skewering society with wit and brio. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage made him the most famous man in England and invented the Byronic hero: brooding, brilliant, and doomed.