Death of the Poet, 19 April 1824: Byron’s Bicentenary
text by Monika Coghen … for true words are things, And dying men’s are things which long outlive,And oftentimes avenge them … Byron, Marino Faliero, act V, sc. I, 162-164 In one of his last poems “January 22nd, Missolonghi. On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year,” Byron memorably expressed a desire for a soldier’s death. Some […]