His only legitimate child, Ada Lovelace, is regarded as a foundational figure in the field of computer programming based on her notes for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. He died in 1824 at the age of 36 from a fever contracted after the First and Second Siege of Missolonghi. Later in life Byron joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire and died of disease leading a campaign during that war, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero.
During his stay in Italy he frequently visited his friend and fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. He travelled extensively across Europe, especially in Italy, where he lived for seven years in the cities of Venice, Ravenna, and Pisa. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular. He is regarded as one of the greatest English poets and remains widely read and influential. Check back tomorrow, with courage I’ll share a sample.George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet, peer and politician who became a revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence, and is considered one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement. Entirely independent of the line-edit process, I spent two weeks mulling where my two darlings came from, including in near-total isolation for a period of 72 hours.Įxhausting, at times seemingly fruitless, the results are now in. The harder part, I discovered, lay deeper down. So already things are improving with just a few, swift cosmetic changes. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, When the wind blows, the cradle will rock.
It’s got a new title, In the Pathless Woods, inspired by Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, the 18th century narrative poem by George Gordon, Lord Byron.īyron’s verse replaces a simple placeholder I’d inserted at the time, filler as quick and simple as this: Rockabye baby, in the treetop. Three years after writing a novel called The Fortress for my eight-year-old son, I’m taking on the fourth revision.
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