![]() ![]() He died from a fever in Messolonghi in Greece. He later travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. Byron served as a regional leader of Italy's revolutionary organization the Carbonari in its struggle against Austria. He is regarded as one of the greatest European poets and remains widely read and influential, both in the Englishspeaking world and beyond. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, and So We'll Go no More a-Roving, and the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1818) and Don Juan (1819-1824), although the latter remained incomplete on his death. George Gordon Byron, later Noel, 6th Baron Byron FRS (1788-1824) was an English poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. ![]()
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