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George Gordon Byron, the 6th Baron Byron FRS (22 January 1788 - 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet, peer, and politician who became a revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence, and is considered one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement. He is regarded as one of the greatest English poets and remains widely read and influential. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and ...

First published in 1819, "Don Juan" is often acknowledged as one of Lord Byron's greatest poetic works. An epic poem, comprised of seventeen cantos that Byron continued to work on and expand until his death, "Don Juan" follows the adventures of the famous Spanish libertine and reflects upon many of the romantic and personal experiences that are universal to all mankind. From a forbidden love affair in Spain, to exile in Italy, from being shipw...

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Reproduction of the original: Byron's Narrative of the Loss of the Wager by Byron Lord

Reproduction of the original: Byron's Narrative of the Loss of the Wager by Byron Lord

George Gordon Byron, the 6th Baron Byron FRS (22 January 1788 - 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet, peer, and politician who became a revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence, and is considered one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement. He is regarded as one of the greatest English poets and remains widely read and influential. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and ...

Don Juan is a satiric poem by Lord Byron, based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womanizer but as someone easily seduced by women. It is a variation on the epic form. Byron himself called it an "Epic Satire" (Don Juan, c. xv, v. 790). Modern critics generally consider it Byron's masterpiece, with a total of over sixteen thousand individual lines of verse. Byron completed 16 cantos, leaving an unfinished...

Lord George Gordon Byron was the flamboyant aristocratic poet who is as renowned for his personal life as he is for his poetry. The victim of an untimely death, Lord Byron lived from 1788 to 1824. Despite this relatively short life he still managed to create a volume of poetry that achieved him the status as one of the greatest of all English poets. This representative selection includes such classics as "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", a sweepin...

Die besten Gedanken eines lebendigen, skandalbehafteten Gesamtkunstwerks Lord Byron war das damalige Äquivalent eines Rockstars - sein skandalöser Lebenswandel fand einen hyperbolischen Ausdruck in seinem dichterischen Schaffen, das Wenige, was selbst für ihn nicht zu leben war, war jedoch in jeder Hinsicht denkbar und in überbordender Fülle beschreibbar. Seine Werke reichen von erotisch, exotisch bis befremdlich und transportieren den berühmt...

Mit dieser Auswahl der interessantesten und amüsantesten Briefe und Tagebücher Lord Byrons eröffnet der Byron-Forscher Leslie A. Marchand dem Leser den Zugang zu einem außerordentlich reizvollen Bereich von Byrons Autorschaft - und gibt ihm Gelegenheit, diese berühmteste Gestalt der englischen Romantik in der Spiegelung ihres eigenen Temperaments kennenzulernen. (Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)

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Don Juan is a satiric poem by Lord Byron, based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womanizer but as someone easily seduced by women. It is a variation on the epic form. Byron himself called it an Epic Satire. Modern critics generally consider it Byrons masterpiece, with a total of over sixteen thousand individual lines of verse. Byron completed 16 cantos, leaving an unfinished 17th canto before his death ...

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