George Gordon Byron

(1788-1824)

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Lord ByronBorn 22 January 1788 in

Dover, Kent, Great BritainGeorge Gordon Byron, 6th

Baron Byron and later George Gordon Noel

British poet Leading figure in

RomanticismPolitics Hereditary seat in the

House of Lords in 1812

Lame footSensitive to

criticismFragile self-esteemControversial

lifestyle and poetryOften unhappyCreated an unstable

world for himselfPortrait of Lord Byron by Thomas Phillips

Title at the age of 10WealthDebtsExtravagant lifestyleCambridge - Bear in his

roomObsessed with foodStarvationWild parties – Skull cup

Newstead Abbey – Family homein 1880

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812)

Byron – ‘I awoke and found myself famous’

Affairs with womenHalf-sister Augusta LeighDramatic poem ManfredHer eyes

Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice . . . were like to mine."

1815 Married to Annabella Milbanke

Daughter Ada1816 left England – never

to returnBitter outlook in the poem

Darkness

Anne Isabella Milbanke in 1812 by Sir George Hayter

Ada

Met Shelley in Geneva

Lifelong relationship

Countess Teresa Guiccioli

Italian nationalism movement

Greece – rebellion against Turks

StressDied of fever on

April 19, 182436-years-oldHero to the GreeksBuried in the family

tomb at Hucknall Torkard

Lord Byron in Albanian dress by Thomas Phillips, c 1835

Best –known poemsShe Walks in Beauty (Song)- http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=73w3wWYjcDk

She Walks in Beauty (Poem) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8kwvhsT850

When We Two Parted (Poem) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-F83USNo7o

Sources:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron

http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/lord-byron-1.php

http://theesotericcuriosa.blogspot.com/2010/09/eccentric-rarefied-genius-or-half-mad.html

http://www.neuroticpoets.com/byron/

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