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George Gordon Byron
Getter Õigus, 11a
George Gordon Byron
1788-1824
6th Baron Byron
a British poet, a leading
figure in Romanticism
born on 22 January
1788
the son of Captain John
Byron and Catherine
Gordon
The coat of arms
of the Byron
family
Byron
born with a club-foot
spent his childhood in Aberdeen, Scotland
in 1789, at the age of 10, inherited the
title and estates of his great-uncle, Lord
Byron
stayed at Harrow for 4 years (1801-1805)
attended Trinity College in Cambridge
Byron
in 1807 appeared his first collection of
poetry, Hours Of Idleness
answered his critics with satire English
Bards And Scotch Reviewers in 1808
took the seat in the House of Lords in
1809
travelled to Mediterranean countries
success came in 1812 with Childe Harold's
Pilgrimage
Byron
many bisexual love
affairs and debts
married Anne Isabella
Milbanke in 1815
has only one legitimate
child – daughter Ada
rumors of incest
Byron
left England in 1816, never to return
settled in Switzerland with Claire
Clairmont and Percy Bysshe Shelley
spent 2 years in Italy
became interested in drama and wrote
The Two Foscari, Sardanapalaus, Cain, and
the unfinished Heaven And Earth.
Byron
armed a brig, the Hercules, and sailed to
Greece to aid the Greeks, who had risen
against their Ottoman overlords
contracted a malarial fever and died on 19
April 1824
his body was refused by Westminster and
St Paul’s
his coffin was placed in the family vault in
Nottinghamshire
The Byronic hero
pervades much of his work
literary history from John Milton and
other Romantic authors
an idealised, but flawed character
great talent and passion
distaste for society
self-destructive manner
alienation from the society
incestuous love
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
published 1812-1818
dedicated to Charlotte Harley
consists of 4 cantos
the travels of a world-weary young man
Childe - a young man who was a candidate
for knighthood
colorful descriptions of exotic nature, a
lyrical exaltation of freedom, lonely hero
Don Juan
Byron’s magnum opus
17 cantos
the epic of its time
includes all levels — social, political,
literary and ideological
the first two cantos were published
anonymously in 1819
completed 16 cantos, leaving the 17th
unfinished
Don Juan
Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant,
The age discovers he is not the true one;
Of such as these I should not care to vaunt,
I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan
She Walks In Beauty
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling place.
Thank you for your
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