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GEORGE BYRON (1788-1824)

He was the only Romantic poet to belong to an aristocratic family and to obtain

European fame.

With his unconventional and scandalous life and his works he embodied the figure

of the typical romantic hero.

In fact his life became the prototype of the romantic hero: unconventional, lover of

freedom, nature and beauty, of noble birth, with a mysterious past of secrets and

sins and a restless spirit, quite moody and passionate. He is an outsider, isolated

and attractive at the same time, but with a great sensibility to nature and beauty.

Byron was an aristocrat who lived in wealthy conditions, actually he was rich and

handsome. He was very skilled at every kind of physical sport even though he had a

handicap, in fact he was lame.

While he attended Cambridge University he became a heavy drinker and he also

started to gamble, so gradually he started to lose the fortune of his family and later

he was always in debt despite his aristocratic origin.

He was lazy and devoted his effort to sport instead of studying, but he started to

write poems. In fact he published Hours of Idleness, which was attacked in the

Edinburg Review.

Then he left for his grand tour, a one or two years journey which young aristocrats

and quite wealthy students of Northern European countries made in Mediterranean

countries (like France, Italy and Greece) to complete their education.

Byron visited Portugal, Greece and Malta and when he returned to England he wrote

the first two cantos of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage that record the experiences he

lived in the Mediterranean countries that he visited.

Then he published the Oriental tales, like The Giaour, The Corsair and Lara, which

had great success because they were set in oriental and exotic places and countries,

loved by the public.

Byron became a celebrity not only for his work but also for his personality, in fact he

made brilliant conversation and embodied the typical romantic hero.

All women couldn’t resist him and fell in love with him because of the sense of

mystery about his figure; but he couldn't be faithful to them and that's why his

marriage collapsed. In fact he had an incestuous relationship with his half-sister, and

surrounded by scandal and debts he left England never to returne.

He settled in Switzerland where he became a close friend of Percy Shelley (the

Shelleys rented a house near Byron's one to spend the long cold winters. So Byron,

Percy and Mary decided to be engaged in a ghost story competition, in which the

only one who completed the task of writing an entire novel was Mary, who wrote

Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus).

Then he moved to Venice, where he started to write his masterpiece Don Juan, and

later he went to Milan, where, like Shelley, he was involved in the Italian patriotic

fights against the political oppression of the Austrians.

He had numerous love affairs even with aristocratic women in Venice and Milan.

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GEORGE BYRON (1788-1824) He was the only Romantic poet to belong to an aristocratic family and to obtain European fame. With his unconventional and scandalous life and his works he embodied the figure of the typical romantic hero. In fact his life became the prototype of the romantic hero: unconventional, lover of freedom, nature and beauty, of noble birth, with a mysterious past of secrets and sins and a restless spirit, quite moody and passionate. He is an outsider, isolated and attractive at the same time, but with a great sensibility to nature and beauty. Byron was an aristocrat who lived ...
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