Lord Byron George Gordon Noel Byron, the perfect image of the romantic poet-hero, was born on 22nd January, 1788 in London, England. His father died early and he lived with his mother. Byron was a genius and had a remarkable memory. He went to Trinity College, Cambridge.
I n 1807 published his first book of poetry, and it was harshly criticized. In 1809, in a two-year trip to the Mediterranean countries, he published the first two cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, that it was successful. In these cantos he included characteristics of Romanticism like nature, the new hero, loneliness, etc. In love, he was unfortunate. He married Anna Isabella Milbanke in 1815, but she left him after a year. He received a lot criticism, so he left his country, never to return. In Switzerland Byron spent several months in the company of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. There he wrote the third canto of Childe Harold (it denounced the grief of life) or Manfred (a rebel hero). In 1816 he settled in Venice. There his compositions show signs of a spontaneous maturation, perhaps it was influenced for his last love, Teresa Guiccioli. He was interested in political themes too and his poetry contributed to sensitize the European mind to the struggle of Greece under Turkish rule.
He died of fever in 19 April, 1824 in Messolonghi, Greece, when he joined the Greek freedom fighters. th
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