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English romanticism
BYRON (1788 – 1824)
Main works
The Giaour (1813), The Corsair, and Lara (1814): a series of verse narratives.
Manfred, a tragedy (1817).
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Byronic hero
An outsider, isolated and attractive at the same time. He is of noble birth, but wild and rough in his manners.
His looks are hard, but handsome. Has a great sensibility to nature and beauty.
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Bored with the excesses of the world.Women cannot resist him, but he refuses their love.
A moody, restless and mysterious romantic rebel. Hides some sin or secret in his past.
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-'"romantic age" identifies a period in which some ideas and attitudes arose in reaction to the Enlightenment of the 18th century
English Romanticism covers the period between the French Revolution and Queen Victoria's coronation in 1837;
Romanticism valued the subjective and irrational parts of human nature: emotion, imagination, introspection and a relationship with nature.