Byron
An introductory Biography of Byron
Concerning the National Portrait Gallery exhibition Mad, Bad and Dangerous – the Cult of Lord Byron and the BBC Omnibus programme of 7 Nov 2002
The Diary of John Cam Hobhouse
Portugal, July 7th – 23rd 1809
Spain and Sardinia, July 24th – August 30th 1809
Malta, August 31st – September 19th 1809
Greece, September 20th – December 24th 1809
Two book reviews illuminate aspects of Byron’s travels in Greece of 1809:
Athens, December 25th 1809 – March 5th 1810
Smyrna and the Dardanelles, March 6th – May 10th 1810
Constantinople, May 11th – July 17th 1810
Lady Caroline Lamb, July 29th 1812
Byron’s Wedding, September 30th 1814 – January 2nd 1815
The Hundred Days, March 11th – August 21st 1815
The Separation, January 1st – April 1816
Mid-1816, April 26th – July 30th 1816
Switzerland 1816, August 26th – October 11th 1816
Milan, October 12th – November 2nd 1816
Milan to Venice, November 3rd – December 5th 1816
“A Higher and more Extended Comprehension”: Byron’s Three Weeks in Rome
Venice, July 31st 1817 – January 7th 1818
Four poems written in reaction to Don Juan:
Canto the Third by William Hone (updated 3 April 2003)
Newgate, December 14th 1819 – March 2nd 1820
Includes related entries:
Byron’s Ballad My Boy Hobbie, O, April 13th – April 20th 1820
Pisa, September 15th-21st 1822