Lord Byron was the Romantic poet whose poetry and
personality captured the imagination of Europe. Renowned as the “gloomy egoist”
of his autobiographical poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812–18)
in the 19th century, he is now more generally esteemed for the
satiric realism of Don Juan (1819–24). Read here.
He created the concept of the "Byronic hero" - a rebellious, moody, melancholy young man, brooding on some mysterious, unforgivable event in his
past.
Lord Byron's influence on European poetry, music, novel, opera, and painting
has been immense, although the poet was widely condemned on moral grounds by
his contemporaries.
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