LADY BYRON
The wife of the poet.
LORD BYRON
From the engraving by Lupton after the painting by Thomas Phillips.
Byron had richness of imagination rather than wealth of thought; he had a full-throated, operatic voice rather than purity of tone; he had splendor rather than clarity of mind; he had great natural force of genius rather than command of the resources of art. He was generous in impulse, enthusiastic in temper, and he loved liberty. It was the presence of these qualities in his nature, and his spirit of revolt, that led Mazzini (maght-see´-nee), to predict, “The day will come when Democracy will remember all that it owes to Byron.”
SHELLEY
SHELLEY’S BIRTHPLACE
Here the poet was born August 4, 1792.