Lord Byron
There are a wide range of poets and authors who are able to move readers with their writings and life stories. For many centuries, poets have been able to express countless emotions and convey unbelievable stories in the readers’ head. People throughout the world in the early 1700’s until now, are moved by his variety of writing techniques and depth in romance. George Gordon Byron also known as Lord Byron became known as a poetic leader of his era. Incorporating his secret love affairs with not only his cousin, but also another man, and changed the world of poetry from that point on. Lord Byron changed poetry with his unforgettable past, and influence on early European poetry, art, and music.
Lord Byron grew up overcoming many different challenges and obstacles throughout his early adult years, influencing his writing in many ways. In London on January 22, 1788, Lord Byron was born to the parents of Catherine Gordon of Gight and Captain John Byron, also known as “Mad Jack.” Lord’s father was a legendary poet who was absent the day of his son’s birth, fleeing to France where he died in 1791. Lord Byron grew up never knowing his father, he only knew him from the poems his father wrote. Catherine Gordon was born an heiress to the Scott’s. She was an overbearing single mother to her son.
They say Lord Byron was born with a club foot due to his mother’s corset being laced too tight during pregnancy, this was one of many reasons Lord openly resented his mother. Byron lacked self-control and discipline throughout his life because of his poor relationship with his mother and absence of his father. This loss of control had a major effect on many choices taken throughout his life. As he aged into a teenager he found it unnecessa...
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...ued except he began to court a different woman named Annabella. This new relationship was forced upon so Byron could distance himself away from his relationship with his half-sister (Biography). Byron overcame many obstacles as he grew older which lead to some of his most famous literary works. Lord Byron’s series of relationships had a great impact on influencing many of the poems he wrote throughout his lifetime.
During mid-17th throughout the early 18th centuries the literary movement of Romanticism swept the world. This is a way in which they people praised for emotion, imagination and intuition to create a better story for the reader. Writers used this style so people could have a direct and complex picture of the story the author is telling. Before this movement writers used a very broad picture, leaving the reader to create their own image.
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To start with, Romanticism was the first writing movement of the nineteenth century. It originated at the close of the eighteenth century in Europe, but was popular from the 1800s to 1850s. This movement was a revolt against the political and social standards of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction to the reasoning of nature through science. Romanticism’s characteristics came from philosophical sources and, because it is a reaction against reasoning, it focuses on intuition, nature, and human emotions. The philosophical background of this movement came from an author named Jean-Jacques Rousseau who emphasized the individual and the power of inspiration. Romanticism later then broke off into another two movements called Parnassian and Realism.
Lord Byron, also known as George Gordon, had a highly adventurous, but short- lived life. He was an extraordinary British poet of his time, known mainly for his satires. One of his great major works was “The Destruction of Sennacherib.” Many thought of his work as inferior and immoral, but that didn’t stop his writing (Harris 57). Byron had a challenging childhood and used his views on life and love based on experiences while traveling to write his most popular works, such as “The Destruction of Sennacherib,” which is often not appreciated.
Huston, Kristin N. "Percy Shelley and Lord Byron." UMKC Campus, Kansas City. 20 Sept. 2010. Lecture.
Percy's life was full of hardships and adventure. He showed promise intelligently as a writer and philosopher from a very young age, although his views were not popular. Even so, his stories and poems were well liked in his time, and even now. His family affairs, however, were always quite awkward and only evened out a few years before his mysterious death.
Romanticism was an artistic and philosophical time period that occurred in Europe during the late 18th century. Many forms of art were introduced at this time, as were forms of poetry and unorthodox ideals coming from the creators of these pieces. The poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, and Keats all shared aspects of nature and their personal emotions displayed through literary allusions. They break away from social norms, and even artistic norms, which was the aim of the artists during this part of literary history.
Not many people end up living through civil wars and befriending the ruler of their country, only to then become one of the best known poets in history. Virgil’s life was full of surprises, all of those things being some of them. Born into a higher class family with a low class worker as a father, but a mother born with a rich family, Virgil did many amazing things with his writings. Many people wonder about what could have helped him create the stories and guides he did, so here are a few. Virgil’s works were influenced not only by his family and childhood, but also by the locations he lived in, along with the relations he had with others and his life experiences.
Romanticism was a movement in art and literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in revolt against the Neoclassicism of the previous centuries. The romanticism movement in literature consists of a few of the following characteristics: intuition over fact, imagination over fact, and the stretch and alteration of the truth. The death of a protagonist may be prolonged and/or exaggerated, but the main point was to signify the struggle of the individual trying to break free, which was shown in “The Fall of the House Usher” (Prentice Hall Literature 322).
Byron is harsh because of things he does to his own family and other kids .
Romanticism first came about in the 18th century and it was mostly used for art and literature. The actual word “romanticism” was created in Britain in the 1840s. People like Victor Hugo, William Wordsworth, and Percy Bysshe Shelley had big impacts on this style of art. Romanticism is an art in which people express their emotion. Whatever they believed is put into a picture, painting, poem, or book. Romanticism goes deep into a mind. It is very deep thinking and it’s expressing yourself through that deep thinking. Romanticism is the reaction to the Enlightenment and the enlightenment aka the “Age of Reason” took place during the 1700s to 1800s. The enlightenment emphasized being rational and using your mind; on the other hand, romanticism focuses on emotion and imagination. It says don’t just focus on rationality and reason.
Lord Byron's chief masterpiece is probably the comic epic Don Juan, which occupied its author from 1818 until nearly the end of his life (Trueblood 14-15). The sheer length of the poem is in itself impressive; its seventeen cantos take Juan through a variety of adventures, including the famous affair with Donna Julia, the sojourn with Haidee, experiences in Turkey and later in Russia as a slave, and finally episodes in England among high society (Boyd 22-30). Remarkably, however, Don Juan as Byron left it is obviously unfinished. Further, the poem was not published in an absolutely complete form until nearly eighty years after Byron's death (Steffan III 562). The unfinished state of Don Juan and the circumstances which led to it inevitably encourage speculation: how would Byron have ended his poem?
Despite its name, the Romantic literary period has little to nothing to do with love and romance that often comes with love; instead it focuses on the expression of feelings and imagination. Romanticism originally started in Europe, first seen in Germany in the eighteenth century, and began influencing American writers in the 1800s. The movement lasts for sixty years and is a rejection of a rationalist period of logic and reason. Gary Arpin, author of multiple selections in Elements of Literature: Fifth Course, Literature of The United States, presents the idea that, “To the Romantic sensibility, the imagination, spontaneity, individual feelings and wild nature were of greater value than reason, logic, planning and cultivation” (143). The Romantic author rejects logic and writes wild, spontaneous stories and poems inspired by myths, folk tales, and even the supernatural. Not only do the Romantics reject logic and reasoning, they praise innocence, youthfulness and creativity as well as the beauty and refuge that they so often find in nature.
Lord Byron had a variety of achievements during his time. Among these various achievements, he had a very significant and profound impact on the nineteenth century and it’s “conception of archetypal Romantic Sensibility. (Snyder 40). “What fascinates nineteenth century audiences about Byron was not simply the larger than life character of the man transmuted into...
Thorslev, Peter L., Jr. The Byronic Hero: Types and Prototypes. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1962. Print.
Thesis: There was no end to the apparent contradictions of personal philosophy versus popular culture, and what Shelley actually accomplished in his short life. Shelley was cognoscente of this contradiction, as can be seen in his Preface to The Revolt of Islam, and it continually shadowed his career.
Some of Byron’s greatest poems are all drawn from his life and his experiences. Many of them involve Byron’s numerous dysfunctional love affairs and his attempts to find more in his life other than lust, through his adventures. Without the inspiration Byron gathered from his unusual and flamboyant life, it is possible that Byron would not be such a notable leader in the Romantic Movement, as many see him today.