'Lord Byron on the shore of the Hellenic sea' (c1850) by Giacomo Trecourt - DeAgostini/Getty Images Lord Byron (1788–1824) is among the UK’s greatest exports. Why, then, do so many treat him with ...

The world today would give a good deal to he allowed, to read the Memoirs which Lord Byron wrote between 1818 and 1821 and entrusted to his friend Thomas Moore. After the poet’s death the manuscript ...