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BYRON (1788 – 1824) - Coggle Diagram
BYRON (1788 – 1824)
life
He lived in Geneva, where he became a friend of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
He moved to Venice, where he began his masterpiece, the mock-epic Don Juan.
He became a literary and social celebrity, but then he left England in 1816, never to return.
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After his return to England in 1812, he published the first ‘two cantos’ of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.
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In 1809 he set out on a tour of Spain, Portugal, Malta, Albania, Greece and the Middle East.
His heart is buried in Greece, his body is interred in England.
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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Main works
The Giaour (1813), The Corsair, and Lara (1814): a series of verse narratives.
Manfred, a tragedy (1817).
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