Lord Byron (1788-1824) was a pivotal English Romantic poet and revolutionary, known for works like "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" and "Don Juan." Despite early criticism, he became highly influential and is considered a successor to poets like Dryden and Pope.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) was a major figure of the Romantic movement, renowned as an English poet and revolutionary. His early work "Hours of Idleness" drew scorn, but "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (1812) and "Don Juan" established his fame. He is seen as an heir to Dryden and Pope, and his death deeply affected contemporaries like Tennyson.
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| Back | 1788-1824 poet Hours of Idelness 1808; Edinburgh review scorned his pretensions, in English bards and Scotch reviewers 1809, Byron attacked Southey, Coleridge and Wordsworth and Scott childe Harold pilgrimage 1812, Southey in A Vision of Judgment 1821: a hysterical attack on Don Juan and its author as founder of satanic school byron's answer was satirizing Southey's encomium on the passing of George 3 in The Vision Of Judgement Tennyson , a boy of 14, when he heard the news of Byron's death, said 'the whole world darkened to me; on a rock near his home in somersby he inscribed the words 'Byron is dead'. he was a heir of Dryden and Pope. George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet, peer, and politician who became a revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence, and is considered one of the historical leading figures of the Romantic movement of his era.[1][2][3] He is regarded as one of the greatest English poets[4] and remains widely read and influential. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular. |
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