“The Poet and the Vampyre: The Curse of Byron and the Birth of Literature's Greatest Monsters,” by Andrew McConnell Stott On the opening pages of Andrew McConnell Stott's The Poet and the Vampyre, ...

Too hot to handle: Lord Byron (left) embarked on a series of affairs all over Europe. Images / Supplied / Getty Images Two hundred years ago, on April 19, 1824, Lord Byron died unexpectedly in Greece.

Andrew Stauffer’s new biography, Byron: A Life in Ten Letters, which starts each chapter with a letter from the poet’s own unsettled pen (and quotes empathetically from women’s letters, too), is ...

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He is one of the most dazzling and romantic figures in English literary history, famed for his lady-killing ways and once described as ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’. Yet a new biography of the poet ...

BYRON — Andre Maurois — Appleton ($5). Author Maurois’ Ariel, the life of Shelley, suave, brief, delicately ironic, set a new style in biography. So great was Ariel’s success and that of the similar ...