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GEORGE GORDON BYRON - Coggle Diagram
GEORGE GORDON BYRON
LIFE
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unconventional aristocrat: rich and handsome, had a deformed foot
at Cambridge University he drank, gambled, made brilliant conversation, became skilled at sports
1809, set out on his Grand Tour (Portugal, Spain, Malta, Albania, Greece, Middle East)
married Annabella Milbanke, the marriage collapsed due to his relationship with Augusta Leigh (his half-sister)
left England because of the scandal, became close frient of Percy Bysshe Shelley
in Milan, involved in patriotic plots against Austrian rule
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died in 1824, hi body is buried in England, his heart in Greece (where he is still regarded as a national hero)
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INDIVIDUALISM
fight against tyrants, desire to be himself
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THE BYRONIC HERO
passionate, mysterious, moody, restless man that hides secrets from his past
proud individualism, rejection of conventional moral rules of society
of noble birth, with rough manners, looks handsome
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women cannot resist him, he refuses their love
STYLE AND REPUTATION
he never considered himself as a Romantic poet (criticised Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats) but had influence on Aleksandr Pushkin, Johann Goethe, Honoré de Balzac
18th-century poetic diction (classic), although Romantic themes
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