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1 giorno fa · George Gordon Byron was born on 22 January 1788, on Holles Street in London, England [1] – his birthplace is now supposedly occupied by a branch of the department store John Lewis . Byron was the only child of Captain John Byron (known as 'Jack') and his second wife, Catherine Gordon, heiress of the Gight estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
20 ore fa · SHELLEY. Shelley is a small parish immediately to the north of Chipping Ongar. Its area is 608 acres. There were 32 inhabited houses in 1801 and 34 in 1811 and 1821. In 1801 the population was 169. By 1851 it had grown to 215; then it declined to 158 in 1901. Since 1918 there has been a steady increase, mainly due to the building of council houses. The population was 386 in 1931 and about 650 ...
4 giorni fa · In 1795, about two years before Mary Shelley was born, her mother, the philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft, threw herself off a bridge over the Thames in London. She had been deeply depressed and had written in a letter not long before her attempt that she hoped she would not be “snatched from the death.”
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
20 ore fa · Samuel Taylor Coleridge (/ ˈ k oʊ l ə r ɪ dʒ / KOH-lə-rij; 21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.
3 giorni fa · The Masque of Anarchy (or The Mask of Anarchy) is a British political poem written in 1819 (see 1819 in poetry) by Percy Bysshe Shelley following the Peterloo Massacre of that year. In his call for freedom, it is perhaps the first modern statement of the principle of nonviolent resistance .
1 giorno fa · England became inhabited more than 800,000 years ago, as the discovery of stone tools and footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk have indicated. [1] The earliest evidence for early modern humans in Northwestern Europe, a jawbone discovered in Devon at Kents Cavern in 1927, was re-dated in 2011 to between 41,000 and 44,000 years old. [2]
5 giorni fa · Lord Byron – poeten som var sin tids skandalomsusade rockstjärna. Publicerad 08:52. För 200 år sedan dog lord Byron, en av den romantiska traditionens stora legendarer. Gunnar Harding ...
