Lord Byron

Pablo De la Vega and Daniel Gaviria

11°B
Index
• Biography
• Style
• Works
• Don Juan
Biography
• George Gordon Byron or Lord Byron
• He was born on January 22, 1788.
• English poet, peer and politician.
• One of the leading figures of the Romantic
movement.
• Travels across Europe.
• Greek War of Independence.
• He died on April 19, 1824: Fever.
Style
• Leading figure of the Romantic
movement
• Blank verse and allusive imagery
• Complex structures.
• Satire and blank verse exploring
ideas of love and nature
• Recurrent themes: nature, the folly
of love, realism, liberty and power
of art.
Works
• The Giaour (1813)
• When the two parted (1813)
• She walks in beauty (1813)
• The Corsair (1814)
• The destruction of Sennacherib (1815)
• Darkness (1816)
• So we’ll go no more a-roving (1817)
• Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812-1818)
• Mazzepa (1819)
• Don Juan (1819-1824)
Don Juan
• Satiric Poem.
• 16 complete cantos and the last unfinished.
• 1819: First two cantos published.
• Criticized at the beginning
Summary
• Parents don’t get along and father dies.
• His mother tries to educate him away from
sexuality
• Affair with a woman named Julia.
• Falls in love with a woman named Haidée
• Russian hero war and moves to England
• Byron criticizes English society.
Topics
• Family
• Sex
• Gender
• Youth
• Education
Sources
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron#Don_Juan
• https://www.bachelorandmaster.com/britishandamericanpoetry/don-
juan.html#.Xq-XX6hKjIU
• https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/poetry/don-juan/themes#ge
nder-theme
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Juan_(poem)
• https://learnodo-newtonic.com/lord-byron-famous-poems