The celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Lord Byron's birth on January 22 was an event of more than national importance. A service was held in the presence of the local authorities at Missolonghi in Greece, where Byron died, and the Greek newspapers paid tributes to the genius of this great English poet, to his passionate love of liberty, and to his, heroic struggles and self-sacrifice on the altar of Greek independence. In many other countries also this date was specially noted, for Byron has his admirers in most parts of the world. Indeed, in some countries there has been perhaps a tendency to prize Byron's work too highly in comparison with that of other English poets; but this should be regarded as a tribute to the universality of so many of his themes. His long sojourn abroad gave him a deep understanding of other peoples and to his genius a wider range.
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