Lord Byron, in full George

British Romantic poet

Gordon Byron, 6th Baron

and satirist whose poetry

Byron, (born January 22, 1788,

and personality captured

London, England—died April

the imagination of

19, 1824, Missolonghi, Greece)

Europe.

LORD BYRON
His faceted personality found expression

in satire, verse narrative, ode, lyric,

As a young man, Byron

speculative drama, historical tragedy,

confessional poetry, dramatic monologue,

traveled to several European

seriocomic epic, and voluminous

countries, including Greece,

correspondence, written in Spenserian

Spain, Portugal, and Italy.

stanzas, heroic couplets, blank verse, terza

These travels helped to inspire

rima, ottava rima, and vigorous prose.
one of his most famous works.
1. Don Juan
2. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
3. 'When we two parted'
4. 'She walks in Beauty'
They were Lord Byron's most famous poems
 Don Juan (1819–1824), by

Lord Byron.

Is a satirical, epic poem

As genre literature, Don

that portrays the

Juan is an epic poem,

Spanish legend of Don

written in ottava rima and

Juan not as a

presented in sixteen cantos. womaniser, but as a

DON JUAN man easily seduced by

women.

It was written in just eight days.

The author was inspired by a man

from Seville, Don Juan de Mañara,

to shape the male protagonist of

this story.