![]() ![]() George Gordon Noel Byron was born, with a clubbed right foot, in London, on January 22, 1788, the son of Catherine Gordon of Gight, an impoverished Scots heiress, and John Byron, a fortune-hunting widower with a daughter, Augusta. letters, arts, politics, even clothing styles, his image and name as the embodiment of Romanticism. ![]() Byron captivated the Western mind and heart, stamping upon 19th-c. He is also a Romantic paradox: a leader of the era’s poetic revolution, he named Alexander Pope as his master a worshiper of the ideal, he never lost touch with reality a deist and freethinker, he retained from his youth a Calvinist sense of original sin a peer of the realm, he championed liberty in his works and deeds, giving money, time, energy, and finally his life to the Greek War of Independence from the over 400-year-long Turkish occupation. He created an immensely popular hero -defiant, melancholy, haunted by secret guilt- for which, to many, he seemed the model. ![]() The most flamboyant and notorious among the Romantics, George Gordon, Lord Byron, was the most fashionable poet of his day. ![]()
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