Lord George Gordon Byron--Shalla's Fave Poet

Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) was as famous in his lifetime for his personality cult as for his poetry.

He created the concept of the 'Byronic hero' - a defiant, melancholy young man, brooding on some mysterious, unforgivable event in his past. Byron's influence on European poetry, music, novel, opera, and painting has been immense, although the poet was widely condemned on moral grounds by his contemporaries. George Gordon, Lord Byron, was the son of Captain John Byron, and Catherine Gordon.

He was born with a club-foot and became extreme sensitivity about his lameness. Byron spent his early childhood years in poor surroundings in Aberdeen, where he was educated until he was ten. After he inherited the title and property of his great-uncle in 1798, he went on to Dulwich, Harrow, and Cambridge, where he piled up debts and aroused alarm with bisexual love affairs.

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Poetry

A Spirit Passed Before Me
Churchill's GraveDarkness
Epistle to Augusta
Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed From a Skull
Lines Written Beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow
Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill
Oh! Snatched Away in Beauty's Bloom
On Chillon
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year

She Walks in Beauty

So, We'll Go No More a Roving

SolitudeStanzas For Music
Stanzas To the Po
Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa
The Destruction of Sennacherib
To Thomas Moore
To Thyrza: And Thou Art Dead
When We Two Parted
Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos