On “Virgin,” her fourth and latest album, Lorde examines the myths that make up her identity. This introspection comes after ...

Headline Publishing Group will publish Poems & Prayers by actor Matthew McConaughey on 16th September. Headline is publishing ...

For more than a century, archeologists have looked for proof that a complex in Ithaca was related to Odysseus, now they have ...

The romantic - and tragic - tale of Lord Byron and his loving wife has caught our attention. See if you’ve heard this ghostly ...

William Collins has triumphed in a six-way auction for Andrew Stauffer’s narrative history of the summer of 1816 and the ...

The eruption of Indonesia's Mount Tambora on April 10, 1815, was the most powerful volcanic blast in history. The immediate damage was devastating: Entire villages were gone, the landscapes of Sumbawa ...

Sweeter Dolce Vita - loved by Italians, Rimini is now even easier for us to reach, Jordan Reynolds finds, who hopped on a ...

The town is home to eight UNESCO monuments, Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s tomb and Museo Byron, a new museum housed in Palazzo Guiccioli, where Lord Byron stayed with his lover Teresa Gamba and her ...

The memorial depicts the poet seated on a lump of rock on top of a slab of Greek marble. Its pose is inspired by one of Byron's lines: "To sit on rocks and muse o'er flood and fell".

Lord Byron Was ‘Mad, Bad, and Dangerous To Know’ — and Now He Can Be Found at the New York Public Library The Romantic poet and hero of Greek independence was sublime on the page and a scandal off it.

Renowned Lord Byron enthusiast Geoffrey Bond - who lives in the place where the infamous poet spent some of his early years - has produced a new book which establishes that Burgage Manor was the ...