compiled by London swaminathan
Date: 8 August 2018
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Post No. 5299
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During one of Hobouse’s visit to Byron—Hobhouse was a College friend— at his villa near Genoa, and whilst they were walking in the garden, his lordship suddenly turned upon his guest, and, apropos of nothing, but always having his deformity in his mind exclaimed,
Now I know Hobhouse, you’re looking at my foot!
Upon which Hobhouse kindly replied,
My dear Byron, nobody thinks of or looks at anything but your head.
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LORD BYRON
ENGLISH POET
BORN ON JANUARY 22, 1788
DIED ON April 19, 1824
Age at death 36
Publications
1807 Hours of Idleness
1809 English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
1812-18 Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
1813 The Bride of Abydos
1817 Manfred
1818 Beppo
1819-24 Don Juan
1821 Cain
1822 The Vision of Judgement
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Lord Byron was a leading poet of the 19th Century English Romantic Movement. His life was almost as colourful as those of the moody, mysterious heroes of his poems.
George Gordon Noel Byron was born in London but spent his first troubled years in Scotland. When Byron was three, his father died, after spending his mother’s fortune, and Byron and his mother faced hardships. But at ten, he inherited a great uncle’s title and estates. Later he attended the prestigious Harrow School and Cambridge University. Byron’s first published poems, ‘Hours of Idleness’, appeared when he was nineteen and were strongly criticized. Byron responded with ‘English Bards and Scotch Reviewers’, a satirical poem attacking the major literary figures of the time.
At 21 Byron began a two-year grand tour through Southern Europe to Turkey. These travels inspired ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’, a long poem about a world weary young lord’s journey through a Europe in need of reforms. The handsome author’s gloomy passion and pleas for justice and liberty attracted women admirers.
At 26 Byron married Annabella Milbanke. She soon left him, shocked by Byron’s affair with his half -sister Augusta. The disgrace made Byron leave England, aged 28.
In Italy, he had new love affairs and wrote his master piece ‘Don Juan’, a long, witty poem about a handsome man’s adventures with women. Byron also began ardently supporting Italian and Greek freedom from foreign control. He joined an Italian secret society and was leading Greek troops against Turks when he caught a fever and died.
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