Newstead Abbey fell out badly. In 1808, Lord Grey left at the end of his lease and Byron returned to live at Newstead and began extensive and expensive renovations. His works were mainly decorative, however, rather than structural, so that rain and damp obscured his changes within just a few years. Byron had a beloved Newfoundland dog named Boatswain, who died of rabies in 1808. Boatswain was buried at Newstead Abbey and has a monument larger than his master's. The inscription, from Byron's poem "Epitaph to a Dog", has become one of his best-known works: Near this Spot Are deposited the Remains
Romantic literature in English of Wales and its past had a far-reaching effect on the way in which the Welsh envisaged their own national identity during the nineteenth century". (See: Damian Walford Davies and Lynda Pratt, eds., "Wales and the Romantic Imagination" (University of Wales Press, 2007), James Prothero. "Wordsworth and Welsh Romanticism". Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. and Shawna Lichtenwalner, "Claiming Cambria: Invoking the Welsh in the Romantic Era" (University of Delaware Press, 2008). James Macpherson was the first Scottish poet to gain an international reputation. Claiming to have found poetry written by the ancient bard Ossian, he published "translations" that acquired international