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GEORGE GORDON BYRON (1788-1824) and the stormy ocean, George Gordon 6th…
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George Gordon 6th Baron Byron, descended from two aristocratic families and his poetry and life embodied the Romantic spirit.
He begane to write at Trinity of Idleness, a smll volume of luric poems.
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In 1809 he set out on a tour of Spanish, Portugal, Malta, Albania, Greece and the Middle East, where he gathered the experiences which gave rise to the first cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage published in 1812.
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His reputation increaased even further when he published a series of verse narratives, The Giaour, The Corsair and Lara.
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In 18815 married Annabella Milbanke, but the marriage collapsed a year later.
Surrounded by scandal and debts, he left England in 1816 never to return.
He lived in Geneva, where he became a close friend of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelly and wrote the third canto of Childe Harold.
He moved to Venice, where he produced the fourth and last canto of Childe Harold, the tragedy Manfred, and began his masterpiece, the mock-epic Don Juan.
In 1819 he moved to Milan, where he became involved in the patriotic plots against Austrian rule; then he decided to commit himself to the Greek struggle for independence from Turkey.
He organised an expedition and devoted himself to training the troops in the town of Missolonghi, where he died in 1824, struck by a seven fever.
Hi heart is buried in Greece, where he is still regarded as a national hero, while his body is interred in the family tomb in England.
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He firmly believed in individual liberty and hated any sort of constraint. He wanted all men to be free and so went to fight against tyrants.
he uses the witty style of 18th-century poetry with a satirical aim to denounce the evils of society
In the foreground there is an isolated man whose feelings are reflected in the wildest and most exotic natural landscapes.