George Gordon Byron is one of the world’s many great poets who died while they were still quite young. The last six years of his life were spent in exile in Italy and Greece.
to Greece. He did not write much poetry at that time. Instead he wrote letters and messages to influential people trying to bring home to them the real situation.
the Turks, had been prepared. The dying Byron imagined he was leading an attack on Lepanto. His last words were “Forwards… follow me…” Thus died the great poet to whom freedom was dearer than life itself.