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Title: George Gordon, Lord Byron: 1788-1824


1
George Gordon, Lord Byron 1788-1824
  • Acquires his title at age 10 from his great-uncle
    the Wicked Lord Byron.
  • Moves with his mother to Newstead Abbey, near
    Nottingham
  • 1801 attends Harrow
  • 1805 Cambridge
  • Meets his half sister Augusta during this period.
  • 1807 First volume of poetry Hours of Idleness.

2
Byron 1807-1815
  • 1807 Byron departs on his grand tourto Lisbon,
    Spain, Greece and Albania. Begins work on Childe
    Harolds Pilgrimage.
  • 1810 Visits Turkey.
  • 1811 At 24, Byron returns to London.
  • 1812 The first two cantos of Childe Harolds
    Pilgrimage published.
  • 1814 The Corsair
  • 1815 Hebrew Melodies

3
The mad-bad- and dangerous Lord Byron
  • Liaisons with Lady Caroline Lamb Lady Oxford.
  • Scandal and gossip about his relationship with
    Augusta, whose child is named Medora (heroine of
    The Corsair).
  • 1815 Marries Annabella Milbanke.
  • Annabella leaves a few weeks after the birth of
    Augusta Ada

4
Byron 1816-1819
  • 1816 Byron settles in Geneva, near Percy and
    Mary Shelley, and Claire Clairmont.
  • 1817 begins work on Manfred. Leaves for Venice.
    Continues work on the third and fourth cantos of
    Childe Harold.
  • Sells Newstead Abbey for 94,500
  • 1819 First two cantos of Don Juan.

5
Byron 1819-1824
  • 1819 Meets Countess Teresa Guiccioli and her
    Carbonari family.
  • 1821 Publishes another mystery play, Cain.
  • Robert Southey follows with his comment on the
    Satanic School.
  • Byron publishes The Vision of Judgment a rebuttal
    to Southey.
  • 1823 Joins the Greek war of independence.
  • Falls ill in 1824 and dies in April at the age of
    36.

6
The Byronic Hero
  • Goethes Faust Part one is published in 1808.
  • In Geneva, Byron meets M.G. Lewis author of The
    Monk who translates Faust.
  • Part Two of Goethes Faust is published
    posthumously in 1832.
  • The figure of Goethes Euphorion is based on
    Byron.
  • Goethe Byron is not antique and is not
    romantic, but he is the present day itself. Such
    a one I had to have. Moreover, he was just my man
    on account of his unsatisfied nature and of his
    warlike bent, which led him to his doom at
    Missolonghi.

7
Lady Caroline Lamb
8
Lady Augusta Leigh
9
Annabella Milbanke
10
Augusta Ada Byron (remembered as the first
computer programmer.)
11
Countess Teresa Guccioli
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