lord byron

…you sly dog you By Maya, Jessica, Ty and Josh

Early Years

•George Gordon Noel•January 22, 1788•Scotland

His New Title

•Lord Byron•Next in Line•Back to England•Newstead Abbey

Touch Of Inspiration

•Dulwich, 1799 •Distant cousin•“Melancholy” poetry•“Unattainable love”

Beginnings of Fame

•Debt •Fugitive Pieces•Hours of Idleness •House of Lords

Travels

•John Cam Hobhouse•Lisbon Pocket Gibraltar

•Marriage bells and poetry

New Kid on the Block

•New Fame•“Melancholy and

disillusionment of the post-Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras.”

Not So Grand Affairs

•Another marriage•“Financially embarrased.”•Augusta Ada •Leaving England

Love and Journeys

•Switzerland•Prisoner of Chillon•Manfred•Alba Allegra

Italian Adventures

•Newstead Abbey •Marianna •Don Juan

Productivity

•“Gentleman-in-waiting”•Arms and alms•Continued poetry

A New Acquaintance

•Casa Lanfranchi •Convent near Ravenna •Leigh Hunt•The Liberal•Genoa

A New Leaf

•London Greek Committee •Cephalonia •4,000 pounds

Caroline Lamb

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Jane Elizabeth, Countess of Oxford

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Francis Webster

3

Augusta Leigh

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Claire Clairmont

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Marianna Segati

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Margarita Cogni

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Countess Teresa Guiccioli

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Supposed Affairs Byron Had During his Lifetime!!!!!!

Fall of a Poet

•February 15, 1824•Rainstorms to colds •Coma •April 19, 1824•Byronic Hero

SHE walks in beauty, like the night   Of cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that 's best of dark and bright   Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender lightWhich heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less,   Had half impair'd the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress,   Or softly lightens o'er her face;  Where thoughts serenely sweet express   How pure, how dear their

dwellingplace.  And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,   So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow,  But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below,   A heart whose love is innocent!

THERE be none of Beauty's daughters                       With a magic like Thee;                                                And like music on the waters                      Is thy sweet voice to me:                                              When, as if its sound were causing                               The charméd ocean's pausing,                          The waves lie still and gleaming,                                   And the lull'd winds seem dreaming:                             And the midnight moon is weaving                                Her bright chain o'er the deep,                         Whose breast is gently heaving                         As an infant's asleep:                                         So the spirit bows before thee                          To listen and adore thee;                           With a full but soft emotion,                               Like the swell of Summer's ocean.      

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Pictures• Lord Byron.

http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Byron/byron.html • Lord Byron. http://www.ldbyron10.org/Image/George

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• Margarita Cogni. http://blufiles.storage.live.com/y1pGzU66OvgI8gXnwSm2Ssp0-CM7dHIF6PBojo3Zam5esEuZwU2amJEK37oE_l58_mFLT-78D1J8TE

• Marianna Segati. http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=Marianna+Segati&prev=/images%3Fq%3DMarianna%2BSegati%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26rlz%3D1T4GGIH_enUS234US237&imgurl=cea4c740242d2ae0

• Caroline Lamb, Jane Elizabeth Countess of Oxford, Francis Webster, Augusta Leigh, Claire Clairmont, Countess Teresa Guiccioli. http://englishhistory.net/byron/images.html