A Day with Lord Byron

By May Clarissa Gillington Byron

Lord Byron was an English poet who became one of the leading figures in the Romantic Movement.  Byron is still considered to be one of the most influential poets in history.  This edition of May Clarissa Gillington Byron’s A Day with Lord Byron includes a table of contents.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Charles River Editors
• Release date: Mar 22, 2018
• ISBN: 9781531279967

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A DAY WITH LORD BYRON

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May Clarissa Gillington Byron

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A Day with Lord Byron

A DAY WITH LORD BYRON

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ONE FEBRUARY AFTERNOON IN THE year 1822, about two o’clock,—for this is the hour at which his day begins,—the most notorious personality of his century arouses himself, in the Palazzo Lanfranchi at Pisa. George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron, languidly arises and dresses, with the assistance of his devoted valet Fletcher. Invariably he awakes in very low spirits, in actual despair and despondency, he has termed it: this is in part constitutional, and partly, no doubt, a reaction after the feverish brain-work of the previous night. It is, at any rate, in unutterable melancholy and ennui that he surveys in the mirror that slight and graceful form, which had been idolised