The world's first computer programmer and daughter of Lord Byron finally gets credit for her research in this gossipy short biography
Over 150 years after her death, a widely-used scientific computer program was named "Ada," after Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate daughter of the eighteenth cent[...]
Ada Lovelace], like Steve Jobs, stands at the intersection of arts and technology." Walter Isaacson, author of "The Innovators"
Over 150 years after her death, a widely-used scientific computer program was named Ada, after Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate daughter of the eighteenth century s ve[...]
Romanticism gained traction in the late 1700s as writers moved away from the intellectualism of the Enlightenment and toward more emotional and natural themes. The major works of the movement s five most famous poets William Wordsworth, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleri[...]
Even by today's standards, nineteenth-century British poet Lord Byron led a wild life. In between his passionate and public love affairs with both men and women, his alleged dalliance with his half-sister, his courageous battlefield exploits in the Greek War of Independence, and his untimely death f[...]
"e;Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know"e;, Lord Byron was a leading figure of the Romantic movement, infamous for his flamboyant lifestyle, yet incredibly influential in the diverse range of his accomplished verse. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, wit[...]
Lord Byron Complete Works Ultimate Collection This is the world's best Byron collection, including the most complete set of Byron's works available plus many free bonus materials. Lord Byron Byron was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic Movement. He is still regarded as one of the a[...]
Hvem var Byron og hvorfor læse en bog om ham i dag?
Denne excentriske engelske lord, som Georg Brandes gav æren for at have indstiftet den moderne litteratur i Europa, og om hvilken Karen Blixen skrev, at der kun var "én bog, der ville blive skrevet igen og igen, og læst igen og ige[...]
Om en ung spansk adelsmans kärleksaffär med en gift kvinna. Boken räknas till litteraturhistoriens klassiska kärleksskildringarna.[...]
An epic poem describes the adventures of a Spanish ladies' man and satirizes English society and customs as it follows the irrepressible Don Juan from an illicit teenage love affair and subsequent exile to Italy, shipwreck, slavery, exploits in Russia as a favorite of the Empress Catherine, and jour[...]
31 poems include "She Walks in Beauty," "The Prisoner of Chillon," "The Vision of Judgment," plus excerpts from Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Manfred.
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