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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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