Lord Byron Attends Harrow School
Poet involved
What happened
In 1801, Byron was sent to Harrow School, a distinguished public school in the suburbs of London, where he remained until July 1805 and formed intense friendships, particularly with John FitzGibbon and William Harness.
Literary impact
Byron's time at Harrow shaped his lifelong attraction to male friendships and his complex relationship with authority, while the school's classical curriculum immersed him in the Greco-Roman literary traditions that would inform his poetic forms and the heroic ideals that permeate his Oriental tales and Greek-inspired works.
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