Byron

GEORGE GORDON NOEL LORD BYRON
(1788-1824)
-born in London
-son of Captain John and a frugal heir
-born with clubfoot, and he had to undergo painful treatments throughout his childhood.
-In 1798 he inherit the title Baron Byron from his great-uncle.
-moved to London whither he was left a great estate.
-went to Harrow school;
-then educated at Cambridge University; was infamous for loose living; left the university without a degree.
-published volume of poetry, Hours of loafing in 1807; attacked in The Edinburgh Review; this caused his satirical answer in the work English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.
-took his seat in the dramaturgy of Lords, and then he started his long journey throughout europium (Lisbon, Spain, Malta and Greece)
-in Greece began Childe Haroldes pilgrimage.
-in 1810 traveled to Constantinople, visited the site of Troy, and he swam the Hallespont in personation of Leander.




- in England in 1811 published two cantos of Childe Harolds Pilgrimage (childe- medieval boylike man who was a candidate for knighthood); (reflections of the young man, who is disillusioned with the life of pleasure, and he looks for distraction in miscellaneous countries); here he created the Byronic hero (intelligent, sophisticated, well-educated, attractive, sometimes he is distrustful and arrogant.)
-published some other verse tales (Lara, The Bride of Abydos, etc) and the collection of lyrical poesys Hebraical Melodies.
-married a woman who was a mathematician; she left him only subsequently a year because of his scandal with his half sister Augusta.
-ran remote to Europe in 1816, and decided never to return to England.
-sailed up the Rhine River into Switzerland and then he settled at Geneva; here wrote the third part of Childe Harolds Pilgrimage (follows Harold from Belgium up the Rhine River to Switzerland). The poem evokes the historical associations of each place that Harold visits.
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