Background
Lord George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824) is regarded as one of the great poets of the English language. His work spans the chasm between classicism and romanticism. Byronism, (the movement named after him) became an independent undercurrent within romanticism, which addressed the phenomenon of cultural fatigue and the exhaustion of the enlightened individual.
Individualism, in its extreme form, was also manifest within the underlying current of Europamüdigkeit (European weariness) that prevailed at the time.
Byron spent a significant portion of his life in Italy. In Germany, for a time, he was considered to be of greater significance than Goethe, and he breathed his last in Greece, to where he had travelled in order to support the Greeks in their struggle for independence against the Turks. This aristocratic poet was thus uniquely European.
The publishing house therefore dedicates its work (the focus of which is on contemporary European poets and writers) to honouring the memory of Lord Byron.