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

Sensitive to criticism Fragile self-esteem 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

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

Newstead Abbey – Family home in 1880

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."

1815 Married to Annabella Milbanke Daughter Ada 1816 left England – never to return Bitter 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 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, c 1835

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

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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