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George Gordon Byron

George Gordon Byron. (1788-1824) Merle Allikvee 11 B. Lord Byron. Born 22 January 1788 in Dover, Kent, Great Britain George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron and later George Gordon Noel British poet Leading figure in Romanticism Politics Hereditary seat in the House of Lords in 1812.

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George Gordon Byron

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  1. George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) Merle Allikvee 11 B

  2. Lord Byron • Born 22 January 1788 in Dover, Kent, Great Britain • George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron and later George Gordon Noel • British poet • Leading figure in Romanticism • Politics • Hereditary seat in the House of Lords in 1812

  3. Lame foot • Sensitive to criticism • Fragile self-esteem • Controversial lifestyle and poetry • Often unhappy • Created an unstable world for himself Portrait of Lord Byron by Thomas Phillips

  4. Title at the age of 10 • Wealth • Debts • Extravagant lifestyle • Cambridge - Bear in his room • Obsessed with food • Starvation • Wild parties – Skull cup

  5. Newstead Abbey – Family homein 1880

  6. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812) • Byron – ‘I awoke and found myself famous’ • Affairs with women • Half-sister Augusta Leigh • Dramatic poem Manfred • Her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice . . . were like to mine."

  7. 1815 Married to Annabella Milbanke • Daughter Ada • 1816 left England – never to return • Bitter outlook in the poem Darkness Ada

  8. Met Shelley in Geneva • Lifelong relationship • Countess Teresa Guiccioli • Italian nationalism movement

  9. Greece – rebellion against Turks • Stress • Died of fever on April 19, 1824 • 36-years-old • Hero to the Greeks • Buried in the family tomb at Hucknall Torkard Lord Byron in Albanian dress by Thomas Phillips, c1835

  10. Best –known poems • She 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

  11. 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/

  12. Thank You! 

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