George Gordon
Noel Byron was born on 22 January 1788. He was the sixth Baron Byron of an
aristocratic family. He was one of the most important figures of the Romantic movement in early 19th century England and he rebelled against the social
conventions and hypocrisy of the time. The disrepute of his amorous
lifestyle is
surpassed only by the beauty and brilliance of his writings. After leading an
unconventional lifestyle and producing an enormous amount of literary works,
Lord Byron died at a young age in Greece pursuing ideals of independence from
political oppression. In Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812-18)
he created the prototype of the Byronic hero, a ruthless (=pitiless) rebel,
emotionally and intellectually tortured, both an idealist and a cynic like
himself, who projects his melancholy feelings and moods onto nature. His second
major work was Don Juan (1819-24),
a satirical poem centred around the
wanderings of a picaresque hero.
Read my previous
post about Lord Byron here.
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