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George gordon byron
5. "She Walks in Beauty"
4. Freedom and Nature
3. The Byronic Hero
2. Poetic works
6. "Childe Harold’s Soul Searching"
1. His life
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his life
George Gordon Byron, also known as Lord Byron, was an english romantic poet. He was born in 1788 in London. Byron was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.After travelling around the Europe he placed in Italy where he lived for seven years in Ravenna, Pisa and Venice until he has been forced to flee England. In 1809 he made a Grand Tour of Spain, Portugal, Malta, Albania, Greece and the Middle East. This tour changed his life: he witnessed impotant historical events. He returned in England in 1812 and some years later he married Annabella Milbanke; this marriage collapsed because of Byron's incestuous with his half sister Augusta who gave birth on 15 April 1814 to her third daughter rumoured by some to be Byron's.'Cause of this scandal and his debts he left England and never returned. During his stay in Italy he often visited his dear friend Percy Bysshe Shelley. Some years later he enjoyed the Greek war of Indipendence fighting the Ottoman empire where he died. His heart is still buried in Greece (he's still considered a national hero), while his body is buried in the family tomb in England.
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Byron's character is described as a "mixture of sweetness and playfulness, by which it was impossible not to be attached" but even "moody sullenness and avenger".
Poetic works - Don juan
Byron wrote prolifically. His most important opus is Don Juan - considered one of the most important long poems published in England. The poem is unfinished because of his unexpected death. It is a satirical, epic poem which represent the Spanish legend of Don Juan as a victim easily seduced by women The poetical narrative of Don Juan arranged in seventeen cantos.Don Juan begins with the birth of the hero; Juan, as an adolescent, has a love affair with a married friend of his mother. When the woman's husband discovers her affair with the boy, Don Juan is sent to the distant city of Cádiz.On the way, he is shipwrecked on an island and there meets the daughter of the pirate who later sell Don Juan into Turkish slavery.At the slave market the sultana sees Don Juan up for sale and orders him bought in order to sneak him into her chambers. Don Juan barely escapes alive from the harem (castle, palace or government). He then soldiers in the Imperial Russian army, rescues a Muslim girl. Because of it he has been included in the royal court.Don Juan falls ill because of the climate, and Catherine returns him to England, as a Russian courtier. The narrative end with Don Juan's adventures with the British aristocracy.
poetic works - Childe harold's pilgrimage
The poem consists in four cantos and speaks about the travels of the young nobleman Harold. It is an expression of the melancholy and disillusionment felt by a generation weary of the wars of the post-Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. "Childe" means a young man awaiting knighthood.Harold is not a medieval knight, he's a libertine. "Pilgrimage" isn't a suitable word because he nevere searched for anything specific. He escapes from his past and tries to find some meaning in life. In Cantos I and II Harold meditates on ruins, death and the vanity of life. The fourth canto, which is set in Italy, contains several descriptions of nature, especially of the sea, represented as the image of the sublime and the eternity. Nature represent the poet's mood and feelings. The poem has had a lot of influene on literature.
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He began to write while he was studying at Trinity College: in 1807 he published Hours of Idleness (small volume of lyric poems). Some others important series of verse are "The Giaour" (1813), "The Corsair" (1814) and "Lara" (1814).They were popular because of their exotic settings and the description of foreign customs.
The byronic hero
Byronic heroes are characterized by having several particular traits; they're a variant of Romantic hero: he's a moody, restless and Romantic rebel, who has some orrible secrets in his past. He refuses the rules of society. He has a great sense of beauty but is bored by excess. Women cannot resist him but he rejects their love. Men either admire him. They usually have high intelligence which tends to make them to be outsiders from society. The Byronic hero is sometimes discussed to be an "antihero" because lacks of classical heroic traits, like courage and noble intentions.
Byron believed in individual liberty. He wanted all men to be free. In their poetry there's always an isolated hero whose feelings are reflected in the wildest and most exotic natural landscapes. Nature is not a source of consolation and joy for him; he loved solitude and this he could find only in Nature.Byron went to nature to seek refuge from human society, where he can hide himself from the weariness and the fever of the world.Byron sees Nature both in its calm and stormy aspects.
Freedom and nature
In June 1814 Lord Byron met his cousin. He was stuck by the contrast created by his cousin's dark hair and her fair face. The poem was published a year later.
she walks in beauty
Childe Harold’s Soul Searching
This is the 3rd canto of Byron’s main poem, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, that deals with the travels of the young libertine and cynic nobleman Harold, who’s trying to find a meaning in his life. The background of this canto is Central Europe. It was written between 1812 and 1818. Harold believes to “become portion” of what surrounds him, not as if he just perceived it and he thinks that everything of nature is lovely and not to be hated. He literally says “the soul can flee among creatures”, and refers to what he has left behind as a place of agony and strife. In this canto, Harold wonders if the nature is a part of itself, and he’s doubtful whether he should condemn it or not.Harold completely fits the mold of the Byronic hero, a moody restless Romantic hero, who has some secrets in the past (of which he slightly talks about in the canto), furthermore he’s of noble birth, handsome but also wild, in fact women are attracted to him, but he rejects their love. All of these characteristics make the Byronic hero irresistible for the readers of the time.
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