Romantic poets 2nd generation
Lord Gordon Byron
John Keats
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem + William Godwin
Married Harriet Westbrook
Mary Godwin (3-way) (Frankenstein)
“The Necessity of Atheism" + expelled (Oxford)
Charles Cowden Clarke (friend, renaissance)
First academic prize 1809
Sensual imagery, odes
Lived with grandmother (1810)
Reputation after death
Passion for history
Inherited land
Clubbed foot
Liked younger boys (bisexual)
Flamboyant
Unrequited love for cousin
Social justice
Zastrozzi (1810)
Laon and Cythna (incest) → The Revolt of Islam (1818)
Harriet's suicide (1816)
Prometheus Unbound (1820)
Byron's influence
Drowned sailing
Social justice
Posthumous recognition
Intimate with half-sister
John Edleston (choirboy)
Met John Cam Hobhouse
Liberalism
English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers. A Satire (playwrights)
Advocacy of the neoclassicism
Tour of the eastern Mediterranean (1809-1811)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (journal)
Mother's death
John's death (poems + Childe Harold (Canto II))
1813 affair with half-sister
Parisina, Manfred, and Cain (perverse incest)
Married Annabella (1815, tender and abusive)
Drinking, abuse, financial problems 1815 + daughter
Connection with Mary Shelley's sister Claire
Friendship with the Shelleys
Don Juan (dissociates self)
Hated war, tyranny, violence
most cosmopolitan
Greek national hero (united)
Was soaked, complications, died 1824
Did not inherit money (unfair)
Doctor
Periods of depression
1816 Leigh Hunt, published (fail)
"Ode to a Nightingale" Wentworth Place (Keats house museum)
"The Eve of St. Agnes", "La Belle Dame sans Merci", "Hyperion", "Lamia" 1819
1821 Italy died of tubercolosis
Letters published (1848, 1878)