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George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among Byron's best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and the short lyric " She Walks in Beauty ." He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential.


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Quote Left I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary... Quote Right
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Quote Left This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal. Quote Right
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Quote Left Romances paint at full length people's wooings, but only give a bust of marriages: but no one cares for matrimonial cooings Quote Right
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Quote Left Alas! our young affections run to waste, / Or water but the desert. Quote Right
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Quote Left I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five? Quote Right
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