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... One of the most popular was Will’s coffeehouse. ... It was considered that poor person’s virtue is higher than a rich one’s. ...
Hatred to the revolution and to Napoleon was a temporary obstacle for English romanticism, which was revived by Byron, Shelly. ... Consequently, the type of the person, supported by romanticism, especially in its Byron variant, is inclined to violence and antisocial, anarchic rebel or victorious despot. ... Once it favoured to the Christianity to pacify person’s “I”, but economical, political and intellectual reasons stimulated rebellion against church, but the movement of Romanticism transferred it to the sphere of moral. ...
BIOGRAPHY OF LORD GORDON BYRON
The most notorious Romantic poet and satirist, Byron was famous in his lifetime for his love affairs with women and Mediterranean boys. ...
George Gordon, Lord Byron, was the son of Captain John Byron, and Catherine Gordon of Gight, a self-indulgent, somewhat hysterical woman, who was his second wife. ...
In his works short and stout Byron glorified proud heroes, who overcome hardships. ... Byron spent his early childhood years in poor surroundings in Aberdeen, where he was educated until he was ten. ...
Success came in 1812 when Byron published the first two cantos of CHILDE HAROLDS PILGRIMAGE (1812-1818). ...
During the summer of 1813 Byron apparently entered into a more than brotherly relationship with his half-sister Augusta Leigh. ... Byron married Anne Isabella Milbanke in 1815, and their daughter Ada was born in the same year. ...
When the rumours started to rise of his incest and debts were accumulating, Byron left England in 1816, never to return. Byron settled in Geneva with Mary Godwin, and Claire Clairmont, who became his mistress. ... At the end of the summer Byron continued his travels, spending two years in Italy.
During the years in Italy, Byron wrote LAMENT OF TASSO, inspired by his visit in Tassos cell in Rome, MAZEPPA, THE PROPHECY OF DANTE, and started DON JUAN, his satiric masterpiece. Byron lived with Teresa, Countess Guiccioli, in Venice, and followed her household to Ravenna. Teresa left her husband for Byron, and Shelley rented houses in Pisa both for Byron and for the Gambas, Teresas family. While in Ravenna and Pisa, Byron became deeply interested in drama, and wrote among others THE TWO FOSCARI, SARDANAPALUS, CAIN, and the unfinished HEAVEN AND EARTH. After Byron started to support the Italian insurrectionist Carbonari movement against Austrian rule, the Austrian secret police started to follow his movements.
With the Gambas, Byron left Pisa for Leghorn, where the journalist and editor Leigh Hunt joined them. ... After a long creative period, Byron had come to feel that action was more important than poetry. With good wishes from Goethe, Byron armed a brig, the Hercules, and sailed to Greece to aid the Greeks, who had risen against their Ottoman overlords. ... However, before Byron saw any serious military action, he contracted the fever from which he died in Missolonghi on 19 April 1824. ...
INFLUENCE OF GREECE ON BYRON’S WRITING
Greece is one of the most mystical and interesting ancient civilizations. Since the first time that he laid his eyes on it, Byron was enchanted and inspired by the beauty of the landscape of Greece. ... But Byron was slightly disappointed by the ruins and the disintegration of the ancient empire. ... In one of his poems Byron remembered a village he saw:
Where lone Ultraikey forms its circling cove,
And weary waves retire to gleam at rest,
How brown the foliage of the green hills grove,
Nodding at midnight oer the calm boys breast…
The beauty of the country never ceased to amaze him. The Greece of sun, sea, and the freedom of expression was what Byron loved most and was inspired by. ...
When Byron visited Greece for the second time, in 1824, he came with the hope of helping the people of the country that he loved fight for independence. ... In this canto of Don Juan, George Gordon sends a message to the Greek people that in order to be truly free, they would have to fight. ...
(Don Juan, Canto III, 701-6)
The mood and theme of some parts of Don Juan (such as the one above) are both very similar to those of the second canto of Childe Harold. ...
Byron admonished the Greeks by saying that they should stand up for their country and get the foreigners, that are trying to control them, off of their land. ...
The influence that Greece had over Byron was not only the topic of his poetry, but also the literary style that he began to develop. Byron appreciated Greco-Roman culture because of the freedom and relaxed atmosphere that the country possessed. ... Byron respected the intellectual power needed for classical poetry, and those qualities as reproduced in English baroque literature. Byron attempted but did not succeed in producing the sense of strong and basic passions leading to inescapable fate that is at the gist of the "regular" or Greek tragedy he was emulating. ...
Though I fly to Istanbul,
Athens holds my heart and soul:
Byron was in love with the country and the people of Greece. ... ] (as the world says I have-but which they will pardon my doubting)-it was in Greece-or off[of] Greece…"
ANALYSIS OF DON JUAN
The Romantic Era (1776-1830) occurred in Europe and was a Period of overcrowded cities, dirty streets and poverty due to the Industrial Revolution and the aftermath of the power scuffles in Europe. ... George Gordon, Lord Byron wrote about love, satires of society and basic human nature. In his famous poem “Don Juan”, Lord Byron reveals human nature and discusses the sophisticated realm of human feelings, attitudes and emotions. ... Also, reflecting the Romantic Era the poet’s narrative statements illustrate the society of the time. ... Throughout the poem, the author conveys this theme of human’s focus and fascination with beauty:
“ Many and beautiful lay those around,
Like flowers of different hue and clime and root,
In some exotic garden sometimes found,
With cost and care and warmth induced to shoot. ... ”
(Lord Byron, Canto VI, 65, lines 513-521)
Lord Byron illustrates the tendency to focus on beauty as he begins the introduction and description of new characters starting with their look. ... Lord Byron uses scenes or elements of nature to strengthen his description of one’s beauty such as in “Her brow was white and low, her cheek’s pure dye / Like twilight rosy still with the set sun” (Lord Byron, Canto II, 118, lines 937-938).
Approximate Word count = 5255
Approximate Pages = 21
(250 words per page double spaced)
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