On his return to London, Lord Byron first startled the House of Lords by defending a group of working men who were violently agitating in the industrial north; and then, in 1818, he published his poem. "Childe Harold." which made him famous in a night, great work "Don Juan," was written during the next five years, the various cantos being published at different times as they were completed. But more and more Byron was developing a spirit of revolt against established institutions, and outraging the conventions by his published opinions and his mode of dite. He became involved in revolutionary plots in Italy while practically an exile from his own country The Greek insurrection against the Turks roused him toan unwonted pitch of enthusiasm. A "Greek Committee" having been formed m Lo don. Byron joined them an offered to go to Greece on their bella and on the fifth of January, 1824 he landed at Missolonghi, where he was given a royal reception. s a leader of rebellion, Byron wed unexpected qualities of sound lism. brave, istic far-i His generosity un bounded—in three month: he speni 59,000 dollars of his own Missolonghi. He slaved him and he encouraged othe ye of the best. He was the idol of the po of Greece; his poetry was kno' all; he was the poet-hero of the struggle for liberty. But he did not live to taste the sweets of success. A drenching during a boat journey led to a fever, from which he died on April 19, 1824. aged thirty-six yi and three months. There were many unedifying sides to Byron's character. but during his few short years of life he won lasting fame as a great poet and as a fervent fighter fo freedom and the rights of the pressed against tyranny and wrong.
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