Scarica George Gordon Byron. e più Sintesi del corso in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Lord Byron was born in London in 1788. He was born lame and this gave him a sense of inferiority, although he was a man of great personal beauty. He attended Cambridge University. In 1807 he published Hours of Idleness, which was attacked by the “ Edinburgh Review” and he replied with the first of his satirical poems. In 1809 he set out on a long journey and when he returned to England, soon acquired great notoriety. Then he created, thanks to his work, the image for himself as a man tormented by melancholy and scepticism. (then, thanks to his work, he became a man tormented by melancholy and scepticism). I n 1815 he married Anne Isabella Milbank but she demanded a separation from her husband and there was a great scandal; Byron was ostracized by London society. He left England and spent the rest of his life abroad. He took part in some political corporations, such as the Carbonari in Italy. In 1824 he died for marsh fever. His literary production consists of lyrics, narrative verse, verse dramas and satirical verse. He also wrote an autobiographical poem, “Child Harold’s Pilgrimage”, in Spenserian stanzas made up of nine lines. CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE This passage is taken from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: is an autobiographical poem in4cantos. The poem is based on Byron’s travels and is interspersed with digressions and meditations. Childe Harold is another version of the Byronic Hero, moody and solitary, but it also contains strong autobiographical elements. It is written in Spenserian stanzas made up of nine lines. The first and the second cantos were published in 1812 and may be related to Byron’s own travels through various countries. The third was written in Switzerland in 1816, when Byron had already left England for voluntary exile, and shows a deeper power of self-analysis. The fourth, perhaps the finest of all, published in 1818, was composed in Italy and contains impressions of various Italian towns, together with their monuments and other beauties. In the works of Byron the nature has a very important role because it represents a refuge after the escape, in fact the protagonist in the middle of the Nature feels him to house, the language that he speaks better is that of the Nature (lines 20-21) while it is telling us that in the middle of the society he lived badly, it felt him oppressed and repressed (lines 26-27). In the last stanza the protagonist describes us all the happiness that he tries to be in the middle of the Nature, a happiness that doesn't succeed in checking. BYRONIC HERO He created heroes like him, he created the Byronic hero: the typical romantic hero was modeled on himself and on his own life and feelings. This is very important because the byronic hero will influence many other authors, for example th Brontë sisters. It’s kind of hero that has arrived to us, we still like heroes of thus kind. The Byronic Hero is a mysterious man. Nothing is known about his past except his lineage. He is taciturn and brooding. GEORGE GORDON BYRON
