On a Voiceless Shore Byron in Greece

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In April 1824, at the age of thirty-six, George Gordon, sixth Lord Byron, died in a wretched Greek town while fighting for Greece in its struggle for independence. What was it that took this man - brilliant poet, as even his fiercest detractors admitted, rakehell, and gadabout - to so commit his life and his soul to a struggle so far from his native shores? For many of Byron's biographers, Greece represents a mere passage, episodes worthy of mention but empty of meaning.

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