LORD BYRON

INDEX

Biography Family Childhood Youth Maturity Adventure in Greece and death Poetic work Works

Biography

George Gordon Byron, sixth Baron Byron

(London, January 22, 1788 - Messolonghi, Greece, April 19, 1824)

Family

John «Mad Jack» Byron Catherine Gordon

John Byron «Foulweather»

Childhood

Youth

Maturity

Adventure in Greece and death

Poetic work A great talent Great display of passion Aversion society and social institutions Frustration with an impossible love because of the

limits imposed by society or death Rebellion Exile Dark past. Self-destructive behavior

Works

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1818) The Bride of Abydos (1813)

Beppo (1817) Mazeppa (1818)

The Island (1823) In my thirty-six years (1824)