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Early Life
Lord Byron was born in Dover the 22 January 1788. After the father's death when he was just three years old he moved to Aberdeen with his mother. In 1809 he moved to the Mediterranean for two years and then came back to England in 1811. In the following years after he became famous for his two cantons of 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'. In 1814 he had his first daughter from the half sister Augusta. Anyway, one year later he married Annabella Milbanke, whom had the only legitimate daughter with. -
Career
Lord Byron as we know was a Romantic poet, passionate about different cultures, in fact, during his life travelled a lot, he participate to the Grand Tour which was a traditional trip for the young upper-class men, he went from the Portugal to the Spain until the Greece. After this trip he returned to Britain and became famous for his two cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, after this he produced The The Giaour, The Bride of Abydos (1813) Parisina, and The Siege of Corinth (1815). -
Politics
Lord Byron, entered in the House of Lords and in 1812 he had his first speech against the the Frame Work Bill. The bill declared the destruction of stocking frames, mechanical looms used in the textile industry, a crime punishable by death. Lord Byron contested to the politicians that were not able to recognise the desperation of the situation. The bill passed and Byron became enemy of the more conservative force. It was clear with a house that Jack Built, an anti-radical satirical pamphlet. -
Major Works and Achievements
Lord Byron wrote a huge amount of works but probably one of the most important poems where the Corsair written in the 1814 and the masterpiece which was Don Julio written and never completed from the 1819 to 1824 since he died. Don Juan was a satirical poem. It was based on the legend of the Don Juan who was a men able to seduce a lot of women. This poem is considered a satire since Don Juan in the poem is seduced by a woman. Whereas the Corsair, its about a fight sea life of a corsair 'Conrad'. -
Contemporaries Relationship
The most famous relationship which Byron had with his contemporaries was probably the one with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The met in summer in Geneva in 1816. Byron was always dismissive with other poets with the exception of Percy.In fact, Byron praised Shelley’s poetry and Shelley his. In a letter from Shelley to ‘My dear Lord Byron’ in 1821, Shelley writes. ‘Many thanks for Don Juan. … Nothing has ever been written like it in English, nor if I may venture to prophecy, will there ever be.’ -
Personal life and death
Byron had many lovers, writers agreed that he had relationship with both men and women. In fact most of his poems were occasioned by the love of someone as it was for the Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and also for Don Juan where he reimagined the legend of a prolific lover. Moreover he was passionated about adventures in fact where he died was in the war of Greek independence against the Ottoman empire. In fact, he died with an infection contracted when he battled in Greece, aged 36. -
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