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It was during his journey, filled with inspiration, he began writing "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," a poem of a young man's reflections on travel in foreign lands.
In October 1816, Byron and John Hobhouse sailed for Italy. Along the way he continued his lustful ways with several women and portrayed these experiences in his greatest poem, "Don Juan." The poem was a witty and satirical change from the melancholy of "Childe Harold" and revealed other sides of Byron's personality. He would go on to write 16 cantos before his death and leave the poem unfinished.
3]Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice 1821
4]Sardanapalus 1821
5]The Two Foscari 1821
6]Heaven and Earth 1823
Works Cited
https://www.biography.com/people/lord-byron-21124525
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron
- His Life:-
Lord Byron was born in 1788. George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron, was as proud of his ancestry as he was his poetry. The poet's father was a rake and scoundrel. He married a Scottish heiress, Miss Gordon of Gight, whose money he was not long in squandering. Though the poet was born in London, his early years were passed in Aberdeen, his mother's native place. As the age of ten, he succeeded his grand-uncle in the titl
He was educated at Harrow and Cambridge, where he showed himself to be heir to the ancestral nature, dark and passionate but relieved by humour and affection.
- Journey of Lord Byron:-
- A Second generation Romantic poet.
- A Revolutionary and a fan of Napoleon.
- His father Captain John [ Mad Jack Byron]
- His Mother Catherine.
They Separated after Byron's birth. His father then had an affair with his own sister. Aged nine his nursemaid, May Gay, preached Calvinism to him by night and play tricks upon his person.Aged ten he inherited his title and returned to the family seat of New stead only to discover. It was a ruin. He then went to Harrow. Where he formed relationships' too romantic to last' with younger boys.
Byron graduated from Trinity College Cambridge. As a nobleman he did not have to attend lectures or sit examinations forbidden by college regulations from keeping a dog, Byron kept a bear. After graduating Byron went to London, organized prize fights and bought the freedom of a prostitute.
He then undertook the grand tour; became sympathetic to the Greek fight for freedom; swam the Hellespont; started to write' Child Harold's Pilgrimage' and collected souvenir costumes. He became one of the most celebrated men in Europe and was sought after socially and sexually.
He had affair with the married lady Caroline Lamb. She would dress as a page and visit him in his rooms. She was anorexic and Byron's friends called her " The Mad Skeleton". She had cut herself when obtaining it. When he ended the affair she stalked him, cut herself at a party to gain his attention and burned an effigy of him.
He had many relationships including affairs with:
a] Lady Jane Elizabeth countess of oxford.
b] Lady Frances Webster.
c] Augusta Leigh , his half sister.
He felt guilty and wanted to fly from his dissolute life. To pay off his debts and in an attempt to reform he proposed by post to the " golden dolly" Annabella.
On his way to the wedding he stopped and wrote a letter calling it off his half sister persuaded him not to send it. His best man tried to persuade the vicar to cancel the ceremony claiming Byron was a " monster of cruelty".
The vicar said it was too late when his daughter, Augusta Ada, was born Annabella took the child to her parents. Neither saw Byron again. He was accused of being syphilitic and insane and having committed sodomy and incest.
He left England and started an affair with Marry Shelly's step sister Claire Clairmant. At Geneva he met Percy Shelley who signed himself into hotel's under the name " Atheist" and the destination"hell". They exchanged roses Byron stayed at the Villa Diodati where Mary Shelly wrote " Frankenstein".
Claire became pregnant. Byron looked after the child, Allegra, but wanted nothing more to do with Claire.
Byron then went to Italy and fell " most painfully in love " with Teresa Guiccioli. She was "as lovely as dawn and warm as noon". She was also nineteen and married. When she was ill he bought poison, intending to die with her. She survived.
Byron then joined the revolutionary forces in Italy. While living in Count Guiccioli's house, he slept with Guiccioli's wife and imported guns to overthrow him.
He wrote " Don Juan" and a further can to of " Child Harold" in which women are the sexual predators. Byron then formed the 'Byron Brigade' and went to fight for Greek freedom from the Turks.
He fell in love with fifteen year old Greek boy the love was not returned. He caught a fever was bled and died. He asked that his boy be not"hacked or be sent to England ". His wishes were ignored. His lungs were left in Greece- the rest of him was pickled and sent to England. His body was refused burial in West minister Abbey- his friends claimed that had the body been lain in the Abbey his corpse would have risen and walked out.
I am such a strange mélange of good and evil that it would be difficult to describe me.
As a boy, Byron's character is described as a "mixture of affectionate sweetness and playfulness, by which it was impossible not to be attached", although he also exhibited "silent rages, moody sullenness and revenge" with a precocious bent for attachment and obsession.
The Byronic hero presents an idealised, but flawed character whose attributes include: great talent; great passion; a distaste for society and social institutions; a lack of respect for rank and privilege (although possessing both); being thwarted in love by social constraint or death; rebellion; exile; an unsavory secret past; arrogance; overconfidence or lack of foresight; and, ultimately, a self-destructive manner. These types of characters have since become ubiquitous in literature and politics.
After receiving a scathing review of his first volume of poetry, Hours of Idleness, in 1808, Byron retaliated with the satirical poem "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers." The poem attacked the literary community with wit and satire, and gained him his first literary recognition. Upon turning 21, Byron took his seat in the House of Lords. A year later, with John Hobhouse, he embarked on a grand tour through the Mediterranean and Aegean seas, visiting Portugal, Spain, Malta, Albania, Greece and Turkey.
Byron graduated from Trinity College Cambridge. As a nobleman he did not have to attend lectures or sit examinations forbidden by college regulations from keeping a dog, Byron kept a bear. After graduating Byron went to London, organized prize fights and bought the freedom of a prostitute.
He then undertook the grand tour; became sympathetic to the Greek fight for freedom; swam the Hellespont; started to write' Child Harold's Pilgrimage' and collected souvenir costumes. He became one of the most celebrated men in Europe and was sought after socially and sexually.
He had affair with the married lady Caroline Lamb. She would dress as a page and visit him in his rooms. She was anorexic and Byron's friends called her " The Mad Skeleton". She had cut herself when obtaining it. When he ended the affair she stalked him, cut herself at a party to gain his attention and burned an effigy of him.
He had many relationships including affairs with:
a] Lady Jane Elizabeth countess of oxford.
b] Lady Frances Webster.
c] Augusta Leigh , his half sister.
He felt guilty and wanted to fly from his dissolute life. To pay off his debts and in an attempt to reform he proposed by post to the " golden dolly" Annabella.
On his way to the wedding he stopped and wrote a letter calling it off his half sister persuaded him not to send it. His best man tried to persuade the vicar to cancel the ceremony claiming Byron was a " monster of cruelty".
The vicar said it was too late when his daughter, Augusta Ada, was born Annabella took the child to her parents. Neither saw Byron again. He was accused of being syphilitic and insane and having committed sodomy and incest.
He left England and started an affair with Marry Shelly's step sister Claire Clairmant. At Geneva he met Percy Shelley who signed himself into hotel's under the name " Atheist" and the destination"hell". They exchanged roses Byron stayed at the Villa Diodati where Mary Shelly wrote " Frankenstein".
Claire became pregnant. Byron looked after the child, Allegra, but wanted nothing more to do with Claire.
Byron then went to Italy and fell " most painfully in love " with Teresa Guiccioli. She was "as lovely as dawn and warm as noon". She was also nineteen and married. When she was ill he bought poison, intending to die with her. She survived.
Byron then joined the revolutionary forces in Italy. While living in Count Guiccioli's house, he slept with Guiccioli's wife and imported guns to overthrow him.
He wrote " Don Juan" and a further can to of " Child Harold" in which women are the sexual predators. Byron then formed the 'Byron Brigade' and went to fight for Greek freedom from the Turks.
He fell in love with fifteen year old Greek boy the love was not returned. He caught a fever was bled and died. He asked that his boy be not"hacked or be sent to England ". His wishes were ignored. His lungs were left in Greece- the rest of him was pickled and sent to England. His body was refused burial in West minister Abbey- his friends claimed that had the body been lain in the Abbey his corpse would have risen and walked out.
- Character and psyche:-
I am such a strange mélange of good and evil that it would be difficult to describe me.
As a boy, Byron's character is described as a "mixture of affectionate sweetness and playfulness, by which it was impossible not to be attached", although he also exhibited "silent rages, moody sullenness and revenge" with a precocious bent for attachment and obsession.
- Byronic hero:-
The Byronic hero presents an idealised, but flawed character whose attributes include: great talent; great passion; a distaste for society and social institutions; a lack of respect for rank and privilege (although possessing both); being thwarted in love by social constraint or death; rebellion; exile; an unsavory secret past; arrogance; overconfidence or lack of foresight; and, ultimately, a self-destructive manner. These types of characters have since become ubiquitous in literature and politics.
- famous quote:-
“Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.”
—Lord Byron
- Popular Poems:-
A] 'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers'
B] 'Child Harold's Pilgrimage'
It was during his journey, filled with inspiration, he began writing "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," a poem of a young man's reflections on travel in foreign lands.
C] 'Don Juan'
In October 1816, Byron and John Hobhouse sailed for Italy. Along the way he continued his lustful ways with several women and portrayed these experiences in his greatest poem, "Don Juan." The poem was a witty and satirical change from the melancholy of "Childe Harold" and revealed other sides of Byron's personality. He would go on to write 16 cantos before his death and leave the poem unfinished.
- Principal work:-
1]Manfred 1817
2]Cain 18213]Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice 1821
4]Sardanapalus 1821
5]The Two Foscari 1821
6]Heaven and Earth 1823
7]Werner (1823)The Deformed Transformed 1824
9]Hours of Idleness (poetry) 1807
10]English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (satire) 1809
11]Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt (poetry) 1812
12]The Bride of Abydos: A Turkish Tale (poetry) 1813
13]The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale (poetry) 1813
14]Waltz: An Apostrophic Hymn (poetry) 1813
15]The Corsair (poetry) 1814
16]Lara (poetry) 1814
17]Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte (poetry) 1814
18]Hebrew Melodies (poetry) 1815
19]Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Third (poetry) 1816
20]Parisina (poetry) 1816
10]English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (satire) 1809
11]Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt (poetry) 1812
12]The Bride of Abydos: A Turkish Tale (poetry) 1813
13]The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale (poetry) 1813
14]Waltz: An Apostrophic Hymn (poetry) 1813
15]The Corsair (poetry) 1814
16]Lara (poetry) 1814
17]Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte (poetry) 1814
18]Hebrew Melodies (poetry) 1815
19]Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Third (poetry) 1816
20]Parisina (poetry) 1816
Works Cited
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Editors,
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