January 22 - George Gordon Byron

George Gordon Byron, known simply as Lord Byron, died this day in 1788. He was a British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential.

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The poem I’m reading is “She Walks in Beauty”.

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