Balzac's first project was a libretto for a comic opera called Le Corsaire, based on Lord Byron's The Corsair.

This is often mistranslated to refer to the Colosseum rather than the Colossus ( as in, for instance, Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ).

For La damnation de Faust, Berlioz drew on Goethe's Faust ; for Harold en Italie, he drew on Byron's Childe Harold ; for Benvenuto Cellini, he drew on Cellini's own autobiography.

He was often mocked for what were seen as sycophantic odes to the king, most notably in Byron's long ironic dedication of Don Juan to Southey.

This was based both on Byron's disrespect for Southey's literary talent, and his disdain for what he perceived as Southey's hypocritical turn to conservative politics later in life.

Byron's own wild life became the model for Polidori's undead protagonist Lord Ruthven.

At a more abstract level Myrrha is the desire for freedom driving those who feel trapped or bound, as well as being the incarnation of Byron's dream of romantic love.

Chestertown is also the setting for Gilbert Byron's book The Lord's Oysters.

In the same letter, he forwarded the programme for a symphony, based on Lord Byron's poem Manfred, which Balakirev was convinced Tchaikovsky " would handle wonderfully well.

In 2011, his " Lady Blunt " violin from 1721, which is in pristine condition, was sold at Tarisio auctions for £ 9. 8 million, or about $ 15. 9 million ( it is named after Lord Byron's granddaughter Lady Anne Blunt, who owned it for 30 years ).

He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death.

Moore was much criticised later for allowing himself to be persuaded to destroy Byron's memoirs at the behest of Byron's family because of their damningly honest content.

Two singles were released form the album: " The Wizard " and " Easy Livin '", the second ( a defiant rocker, according to Blows, " tailor-made for Byron's extrovert showmanship ") peaked at No. 38 in Billboard Hot 100.

The book was notable for featuring the first version of the Byronic hero outside of Byron's own work as well as a detailed scrutiny of the Romantic Period and, more specifically, the Ton.

The New Klezmer trio kicked open the door for radical experiments with Ashkenazi music and paved the way for John Zorn's Masada, Naftule's Dream, Don Byron's Mickey Katz project and violinist Daniel Hoffman's band Davka.

D ' Israeli also mentions Lord Byron's ( 1788 – 1824 ) praise for Piers Plowman.

The Liberal lived through four quarterly numbers, containing contributions no less memorable than Byron's " Vision of Judgment " and Shelley's translations from Faust ; but in 1823 Byron sailed for Greece, leaving Hunt at Genoa to shift for himself.

As Fairfax approached Acton, Colonel Richard Gibson ( deputising for Byron's Sergeant-Major General Sir Michael Erneley, who was ill ), deployed four regiments of infantry ( his own and those of Sir Michael Erneley, Colonel Henry Warren and Sir Robert Byron, younger brother of Lord John Byron ) to face Fairfax.

The Byronic hero first appears in Byron's semi-autobiographical epic narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ( 1812 – 1818 ), and was described by the historian and critic Lord Macaulay as " a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection ".

( The ship was named after Russian general Alexander Suvorov, who appears as " Suwarrow " in Lord Byron's epic poem Don Juan.

Byron's Pool is named after the poet, Lord Byron, who is reputed to have swum there.

Uriah Heep's progressive / art rock / heavy metal fusion's distinctive features have always been massive keyboards sound, strong vocal harmonies and ( in the early years ) David Byron's operatic vocals.

Further upstream is Byron's Pool, named after Lord Byron, who is said ( by Brooke, at least ) to have swum there.

Byron's and Digby's men in particular, were not involved in the first clashes and should have been kept in hand rather than allowed to gallop off the battlefield.

However, in Byron's epic poem it rhymes with ruin and true one, indicating that it was intended to have the trisyllabic spelling pronunciation.

Both Byron's life and writings have been considered in different ways to exemplify the type.

The initial version of the type in Byron's work, Childe Harold, draws on a variety of earlier literary characters including Hamlet and Goethe's Werther ( 1774 ); he was also noticeably similar to René, the hero of Chateaubriand's novella of 1802, although Byron may not have read this.

When her mother died, Anne Isabella and her husband changed their names to Noel also ; her mother had required this as a condition for inheriting her considerable estate ; her mother disliked Byron's name so much that she had written a letter to the Prince Regent, requesting that he give her daughter the title of " Lady Wentworth " ( a barony separate from the one she would eventually inherit ), so that her parents would not have to call her " Byron ".

Long's Hounds of Tindalos have also inspired a number of metal and electronic music artists, such as Metallica, Epoch of Unlight, Edith Byron's Group, Beowulf, Fireaxe / Brian Voth, and Univers Zero, all of whom have recorded tracks based upon the story.

Gifford was popularly supposed to have penned the attack on Keats's ' Endymion ' ( the review was actually by John Wilson Croker ), which Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron erroneously blamed for bringing about the death of the poet, ' snuffed out ', in Byron's phrase, ' by an article '.

# Vallée d ' Obermann ( Obermann's Valley )-The captions include one from Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (" Could I embody and unbosom now / That which is most within me ,-- could I wreak / My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw / Soul -- heart -- mind -- passions -- feelings -- strong or weak -- / All that I would have sought, and all I seek, / Bear, know, feel -- and yet breathe -- into one word, / And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; / But as it is, I live and die unheard, / With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.

However, Nathan, in his reminiscences of Byron, indicates that the subject of the poem may have been Byron's half-sister, Augusta.

In the nave of Westminster Abbey, Lord Byron's friends, wife and sister have arrived to present a statue of Lord Byron to the Dean of the Abbey, and to lobby for the poet's burial there.

While they have not read Byron's own manuscript, their memories cause enough fear that they burn the memoirs.

The Dean of the Abbey arrives, and upon learning that the relatives considered Byron's memoirs unfit for reading, he denies permission to have Byron buried in Westminster Abbey.

His marriage, and the vehement anti-Jewish reviews which Byron's poetry received, may have both provided significant disincentives to do so.

The play has been interpreted as an autobiography, with Sardanapalus as Byron's alter ego, Zarina as Byron's wife Anne Isabella, and Myrrha as his mistress Teresa.

Thomas Wildman, who had been at Harrow School with Byron and was heir to Jamaican plantations, paid £ 94, 500, easing Byron's financial troubles considerably.

Even though d ' Estaing had been alerted to Byron's progress, and his fleet outnumbered Byron's, he still scrambled to embark soldiers and sail away from the island.

This had been written in 1816 by Dr. John William Polidori, another acquaintance of Byron's.

It has been said that the character of Donna Inez ( Don Juan's mother ) was a thinly veiled portrait of Byron's own wife, Annabella Milbanke ( daughter of Sir Ralph Milbanke ).