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The Mark Steel Lectures Episode 1

This documentary series contains three seasons.

Season 1: Episode 1-6
Season 2: Episode 7-11
Season 3: Episode 12-17

Lord Byron

Season 1. Episode 1.

George Gordon Byron, (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism.

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.