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Fiona maccarthy byron5/17/2023 Some, who can sneer at friendship’s ties, See the poem, “On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year” (1824), as well as "Love and Death" (1824) and “Last Words on Greece” (1824), below. In Greece, the last object of his love (which was not returned) was for his teenaged Greek page, Lukas Chalandritsanos ( MacCarthy, pp. Byron had a deep love for Nicolas (or Nicolo, Byron’s version of his name) Giraud, “a young man he met in Greece, where he died in 1824 after joining the Greek revolt against the Turks" (see "If Sometimes in the Haunts of Men" (1812 written for Giraud and reprinted in Fone see pp. His handsome servant, William Fletcher, “was at Byron’s side from 1804, when Byron was sixteen, almost without interval until his master died” (Fiona MacCarthy, Byron: Life and Legend, p. Despite Byron’s reputation as a womanizer and a world-class object of heterosexual love, he was, apparently, throughout his life romantically attached to men. They are both about a schoolmate at Harrow, John Edleston (spelled “Eddleston” by Byron), with whom Byron was deeply in love (see The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature, ed. The first two poems below appear in The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (ed.
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