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.

Augusta Maria Byron, later Augusta Maria Leigh ( 26 January 1783 – 12 October 1851 ), styled " The Honourable " from birth, was the only daughter of John " Mad Jack " Byron, the poet Lord Byron's father, by his first wife, Amelia Osborne ( Baroness Conyers in her own right and the divorced wife of Francis, Marquis of Carmarthen, who was later to become 5th Duke of Leeds ).

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 ).

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.

However, the memories also include that Byron committed incest with his half-sister Augusta Leigh and fathered her daughter, which led to Byron's self-exile and Byron's wife insisting that he must never see Augusta again.

Not everyone is bewitched by Byron's caliphs and harem beauties ''.

Charles Lamb, poet and friend of Coleridge, witnessed Coleridge's work towards publishing the poem and wrote to Wordsworth: " Coleridge is printing Xtabel by Lord Byron's recommendation to Murray, with what he calls a vision of Kubla Khan – which said vision he repeats so enchantingly that it irradiates & brings Heaven & Elysian bowers into my parlour while he sings or says it ".

* February 1 – Lord Byron's semi-autobiographical tale in verse The Corsair is published by John Murray in London and sells 10, 000 copies on this day.

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

It was employed by Shelley and is the form used in Byron's The Prophecy of Dante.

This is most evident in the thematic aspects of his music, particularly Harold en Italie ( 1834 ), a work inspired by Lord Byron's Childe Harold.

* Hannah Jarvis: The author of a popular best-seller on Byron's mistress Lady Caroline Lamb, Hannah is researching the elusive hermit of Sidley Park, who lived in the hermitage there in the early 19th century.

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.

The term is also used metaphorically to refer to the work or skill of a poet, as in Shelley's " Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is " or Byron's " I wish to tune my quivering lyre ,/ To deeds of fame, and notes of fire "

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

From the Mill Pool and its weir, the river can be followed upstream through Grantchester meadows to the village of Grantchester and Byron's Pool, where it is fed by many streams.

Another minor tributary is Bourn Brook which has its source near the village of Eltisley, west of Cambridge, running east through Caxton, Bourn and Toft to join the Cam at Byron's Pool.

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

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 ).

Hightower then accepts Byron's suggestion, but it is too late as Percy Grimm is close behind.

Lamb's most famous work is Glenarvon, a Gothic novel that was released in 1816 just weeks after Byron's departure from England.

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

The following is from Byron's The Destruction of Sennacherib:

A satirical reference to " Sepulchral Grahame " is found in Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.

While Byron's usage of the guardian angel is influenced by Alexander Pope's " sylph ", it seems that the popular image of the angel was as a spiritual superego.

* Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament ( 1993 ) ( includes a study of Lord Byron's illness ), ISBN 0-684-83183-X

An anecdote relates that Munthe was discussing publication of The Story of San Michele with his publisher, John Murray, in the garden at Southside, and Murray related that his ancestor of the same name had sat in the same garden with Lord Byron, discussing publication of Byron's works.

Lord Byron's son and heir ( also named William ) eloped with Juliana Byron, the daughter of William's brother John Byron.

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.

Along with Byron's other, more science fiction oriented lyrics detailing a far future era of galactic struggle and interstellar war, the Bal-Sagoth lyrics span countless aeons and are truly epic in scope.

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

Moore did, however, edit and publish Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, with Notices of his Life in 1830, six years after Byron's 1824 death in Greece.

Very ' umble ( which was self-titled in the United States ), introduced Hensley's heavy organ and guitar-driven sound, with David Byron's theatrical, dynamic vocals soaring above thunderous sonic backgrounds, although acoustic and jazz elements also featured in the mix.

However, it was not matched with the quality of live concerts which were more and more chaotic due to Byron's inconsistency on stage.

Lady Caroline's obsession with Byron would define much of her later life and as well as influence both her and Byron's works.

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.

Among other works of art and literature to which Paglia applies her analysis of the Western canon are: the Venus of Willendorf, the Bust of Nefertiti, Ancient Greek sculpture, Donatello's David, Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera, Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa and The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, Michelangelo, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare's As You Like It and Antony and Cleopatra, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marquis de Sade, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Lord Byron's Don Juan, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Honoré de Balzac, Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Henry James, The Pre-Raphaelites, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Emily Dickinson.

At least twelve of the prisoners, mostly local militia, were executed in cold blood, with Byron's approval.

Together with the casualties from earlier fighting in Cheshire, and sickness and desertions, Byron's forces were reduced to a total of about 3, 500 men.

He also rapped on the song " Schizo Jam ", on Don Byron's 1998 release, " Nu Blaxploitation " ( Blue Note / Capitol ) and worked with Canibus on the first track on the Office Space soundtrack ( 1999 ).

This was followed by The Voyage of Columbus ( 1810 ), and by Jacqueline ( 1814 ), a narrative poem, written in the four-accent measure of the newer writers, and published in the same volume with Byron's Lara.

On Admiral John Byron's arrival from England with reinforcements, Howe left his station in September 1778.

Dr. John William Polidori, a friend of Lord Byron's, earned his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1815 with a treatise on sleepwalking.

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

He turns to other forms of communication: first, he tries to find a way to commune with animals, who can sense subtle, non-verbal emotions ; at the same time, he attempts to write an opera about the poet Lord Byron, told from the perspective of Byron's mistress Teresa.

Under Fabvier, the regular corps expanded, and for the first time came to include cavalry, military music detachments, and, with Lord Byron's aid, military hospitals.