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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 a <a href='/en/British_people' title='British people'>British</a> poet and a leading figure in <a href='/en/Romanticism' title='Romanticism'>Romanticism</a>. Amongst 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, both in the English-speaking world and beyond. Byron's notability rests not only on his writings but also on his life, which featured aristocratic excesses, huge debts, numerous love affairs, and self-imposed exile. He was famously described by Lady Caroline Lamb as "mad, bad and dangerous to know". Byron served as a regional leader of <a href='/en/Italy' title='Italy'>Italy</a>'s revolutionary organization, the Carbonari, in its struggle against Austria. He later travelled to fight against the <a href='/en/Ottoman_Empire' title='Ottoman Empire'>Ottoman Empire</a> in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died from a fever contracted while in Missolonghi in Greece. false fotopedia-en-George_Gordon_Byron,_6th_Baron_Byron fotopedia George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron false

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