Lord Byron: A Brief BiographyGeorge Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, was born in London on January 22, 1788 and died in Missolonghi, Greece on April 19, 1824 from a fever contracted in Missolonghi during his engagement in the Greek struggle for independence.
Byron was an English poet and lead figure during the Romantic Movement. Byron’s major works and most recognized poetry include Child Harold’s Pilgrimage, Don Juan, and She Walks in Beauty. Byron obtained many characteristics that set his individuality apart from others. Byron was well known for being born with a clubfoot, a deformity that later regarded him as the handsome poet with the clubfoot. Byron was also well recognized for his huge debts, numerous love affairs, his scandalous incestuous involvement with his half-sister, and his widely known self-imposed exile. Once Byron’s affairs and rendezvous with woman created a guilty conscious inside him, which he attempted to escape through his marriage to Anne Isabella Milbanke. After marriage bailiffs came to their house demanding payment for debts and Byron attempted to evade embarrassment once more by escaping to the house of his publisher, John Murray. After the birth of their daughter, Lady Byron left with the child for a visit with her parents and let Byron know that she had no intentions of moving back. Reasons and rumors for Lady Byron’s departure flew, mostly centering on Byron’s relationship with his sister Augusta Leigh. When the rumors grew Byron signed the legal separation papers and went abroad, never to return again to England. Byron was then known as the most famous exile in Europe. It was rumored that at the age of nine, Lord Byron’s nurse, May Gray, made physical advances toward him. This experience and his idealized love for his distant cousins is said to have shaped his paradoxical and unusual attitudes toward women. |
Poetry
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Fourth
http://englishhistory.net/byron/poems/harold.html Don Juan: Dedication http://englishhistory.net/byron/poems/juanded.html When We Two Parted http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-WTP57.htm Epistle to Augusta http://englishhistory.net/byron/poems/epistle.html Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer http://englishhistory.net/byron/poems/farewell.html John Keats http://englishhistory.net/byron/poems/keats.html My Soul is Dark http://englishhistory.net/byron/poems/mysoul.html |