George Gordon, Lord Byron: 1788-1824

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George Gordon, Lord Byron 1788-1824

• Acquires his title at age 10 from his great-uncle
  the Wicked Lord Byron.
• Moves with his mother to Newstead Abbey, near
  Nottingham
• 1801 attends Harrow
• 1805 Cambridge
• Meets his half sister Augusta during this period.
  
• 1807 First volume of poetry Hours of Idleness.

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Byron 1807-1815

• 1807 Byron departs on his grand tourto Lisbon,
  Spain, Greece and Albania. Begins work on Childe
  Harolds Pilgrimage.
• 1810 Visits Turkey.
• 1811 At 24, Byron returns to London.
• 1812 The first two cantos of Childe Harolds
  Pilgrimage published.
• 1814 The Corsair
• 1815 Hebrew Melodies

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The mad-bad- and dangerous Lord Byron

• Liaisons with Lady Caroline Lamb Lady Oxford.
• Scandal and gossip about his relationship with
  Augusta, whose child is named Medora (heroine of
  The Corsair).
• 1815 Marries Annabella Milbanke.
• Annabella leaves a few weeks after the birth of
  Augusta Ada

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Byron 1816-1819

• 1816 Byron settles in Geneva, near Percy and
  Mary Shelley, and Claire Clairmont.
• 1817 begins work on Manfred. Leaves for Venice.
  Continues work on the third and fourth cantos of
  Childe Harold.
• Sells Newstead Abbey for 94,500
• 1819 First two cantos of Don Juan.

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Byron 1819-1824

• 1819 Meets Countess Teresa Guiccioli and her
  Carbonari family.
• 1821 Publishes another mystery play, Cain.
• Robert Southey follows with his comment on the
  Satanic School.
• Byron publishes The Vision of Judgment a rebuttal
  to Southey.
• 1823 Joins the Greek war of independence.
• Falls ill in 1824 and dies in April at the age of
  36.

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The Byronic Hero

• Goethes Faust Part one is published in 1808.
• In Geneva, Byron meets M.G. Lewis author of The
  Monk who translates Faust.
• Part Two of Goethes Faust is published
  posthumously in 1832.
• The figure of Goethes Euphorion is based on
  Byron.
• Goethe Byron is not antique and is not
  romantic, but he is the present day itself. Such
  a one I had to have. Moreover, he was just my man
  on account of his unsatisfied nature and of his
  warlike bent, which led him to his doom at
  Missolonghi.

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Lady Caroline Lamb
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Lady Augusta Leigh
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Annabella Milbanke
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Augusta Ada Byron (remembered as the first
computer programmer.)
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Countess Teresa Guccioli