His lifespan is 1788 to 1824. He was born in London. His early years were passed in Aberdeen, which was his mother’s native place. He married an heiress in 1815. He died of fever at Missolonghi and his body was given a grand funeral in England.

Poetry – His poetry includes:
1) Hours of Idleness(1807) – This work was his juvenile effort.
2) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers(1809) – Byron composed this satire in the style of Pope.
3) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage(1812) – This poem is on his two years of travel. The hero of the poem is a romantic youth, and is very clearly Byron himself. The poem is diffuse, but sometimes it can be terse and energetic. The style is half-heartedly old-fashioned, in deference to the stanza. This poem brought the author a dower of fame.
4) His poetic tales : “The Giaour”, The Bride of Abydos(1813), “The Corsair” and “Lara”(1814), “The Siege of Corinth” and “Parisina” in 1815(published 1816).
These tales deal with the romantic scenes of the East. They almost uniformly reproduce the young Byronic hero of “Childe Harold”. They are mannered and stagy. It is written in couplet form.

His longer poems – “The Prisoner of Chillon”(1816), “Mazeppa”(1819)

His satirical poems – “Beppo”(1818, published 1819), “The Vision of Judgement”(1822), “Don Juan”(the longest of all).

5) “The Vision of Judgement” – It is one of the finest English political satires. The poem is written in ottava rima. This poem shows a mastery of satirical portraiture.
6) “Don Juan” – In range; in vigour and in effectiveness, “Don Juan” ranks as one of the greatest of satirical poems. This poem was issued in portions during the years 1819-24.
It is a kind of picaresque novel cast into verse.
Here, Byron expresses the wrath that consumes him.
The stanzas are written in ottava rima.

His Drama : Byron’s dramas are all blank-verse tragedies. They were composed in the later stages of his career.
His dramas include :
1) Manfred(1817)
2) Marino Faliero(1821)
3) “The Two Foscari” and “Cain”(1821)
4) The Deformed Transformed(1824)
In nearly all, the hero is Byronic type. Ex- In “Cain”, we have the outcast who defies the censure of the world.
In “The Deformed Transformed”, there are thinly screened references to Byron’s own deformity.
The blank verse has power and dignity, but it lacks the higher poetic
inspiration. His Lyrics : His lyrics include:
1) She Walks in Beauty
2) To Thyrza