Lord Byron
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| + | "I dare say […] that [[Lord Byron|Byron]] and [[de Sade]] […] have been perhaps the two greatest [[artistic inspiration|inspirations]] of our moderns, one openly and visibly, the other [[clandestine]] - though not too clandestine."--Sainte-Beuve, 1843, tr. Geerinck | ||
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| "[[Mad, bad and dangerous to know]]" | "[[Mad, bad and dangerous to know]]" | ||
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| + | “The great object of life is [[Sensation]] – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to Gaming – to Battle – to Travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every imaginable description whose principle attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.” --[[Lord Byron ]] | ||
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| + | "We of the craft are all crazy, but I more than the rest; some are affected by gaiety, others by melancholy, but all are more or less [[Touched with Fire|touched]]." --[[Lord Byron]] cited in ''[[A Journal Of The Conversations Of Lord Byron With The Countess Of Blessington]]'' (1834) by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | ||
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| + | What man call [[gallantry]] and Gods [[adultery]]<br> | ||
| + | Is much more common where the [[climate]] is [[sultry]]. | ||
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| + | --Byron | ||
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| == Byron and the moderns == | == Byron and the moderns == | ||
| :In 1843 famed critic [[Sainte-Beuve]] wrote that [[Byron]] and [[Sade]] "are perhaps the two greatest inspirations of our [[History of modern literature|modern]]s, the first [[mainstream|openly and visibly]], the second [[clandestine]]ly, but not very. | :In 1843 famed critic [[Sainte-Beuve]] wrote that [[Byron]] and [[Sade]] "are perhaps the two greatest inspirations of our [[History of modern literature|modern]]s, the first [[mainstream|openly and visibly]], the second [[clandestine]]ly, but not very. | ||
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| + | * [[Baron Byron|Barony of Byron]] | ||
| + | * [[Byronic hero]] | ||
| + | * [[Early life of Lord Byron|Early life]] | ||
| + | * [[Newstead Abbey]] | ||
| + | * [[Timeline of Lord Byron]] | ||
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| + | * [[Anne Isabella Byron, Baroness Byron|Anne Isabella, Lady Byron]] (wife) | ||
| + | * [[Ada Lovelace]] (daughter) | ||
| + | * [[Allegra Byron]] (daughter) | ||
| + | * [[John Byron (British Army officer)|John "Mad Jack" Byron]] (father) | ||
| + | * [[Claire Clairmont]] | ||
| + | * [[Nicolo Giraud]] | ||
| + | * [[Teresa, Contessa Guiccioli|Contessa Guiccioli]] | ||
| + | * [[Jane Harley, Countess of Oxford and Countess Mortimer|Jane Harley]] | ||
| + | * [[John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton|John Cam Hobhouse]] | ||
| + | * [[Douglas Kinnaird]] | ||
| + | * [[Lady Caroline Lamb]] | ||
| + | * [[Augusta Leigh]] (maternal half-sister) | ||
| + | * [[Elizabeth Medora Leigh|Medora Leigh]] | ||
| + | * [[Thomas Moore]] | ||
| + | * [[Isaac Nathan]] | ||
| + | * [[Walter Scott]] | ||
| + | * [[John William Polidori]] | ||
| + | * [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] | ||
| + | * [[Mary Shelley]] | ||
| + | * [[Edward John Trelawny]] | ||
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| + | * ''[[Hours of Idleness]]'' (1807) | ||
| + | * ''[[English Bards and Scotch Reviewers]]'' (1809) | ||
| + | * ''[[Childe Harold's Pilgrimage]]'' (1812–1818) | ||
| + | * ''[[The Giaour]]'' (1813) | ||
| + | * ''[[The Bride of Abydos]]'' (1813) | ||
| + | * ''[[The Corsair]]'' (1814) | ||
| + | * ''[[Lara, A Tale]]'' (1814) | ||
| + | * ''[[The Siege of Corinth (poem)|The Siege of Corinth]]'' (1816) | ||
| + | * ''[[Parisina]]'' (1816) | ||
| + | * ''[[The Prisoner of Chillon]]'' (1816) | ||
| + | * ''[[The Dream (Byron poem)|The Dream]]'' (1816) | ||
| + | * ''[[Prometheus (poem)|Prometheus]]'' (1816) | ||
| + | * "[[Darkness (poem)|Darkness]]" (1816) | ||
| + | * ''[[The Lament of Tasso]]'' (1817) | ||
| + | * ''[[Beppo (poem)|Beppo]]'' (1818) | ||
| + | * ''[[Don Juan (poem)|Don Juan]]'' (1819–1824; incomplete upon Byron's 1824 death) | ||
| + | * ''[[Mazeppa (poem)|Mazeppa]]'' (1819) | ||
| + | * ''[[The Prophecy of Dante]]'' (1819) | ||
| + | * ''[[The Vision of Judgment]]'' (1821) | ||
| + | * ''[[The Age of Bronze (poem)|The Age of Bronze]]'' (1823) | ||
| + | * ''[[The Island (Byron)|The Island]]'' (1823) | ||
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| + | * ''[[Manfred]]'' (1817) | ||
| + | * ''[[Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice|Marino Faliero]]'' (1820) | ||
| + | * ''[[Sardanapalus (play)|Sardanapalus]]'' (1821) | ||
| + | * ''[[The Two Foscari (Byron)|The Two Foscari]]'' (1821) | ||
| + | * ''[[Cain (play)|Cain]]'' (1821) | ||
| + | * ''[[Heaven and Earth (drama)|Heaven and Earth]]'' (1821) | ||
| + | * ''[[Werner (play)|Werner]]'' (1822) | ||
| + | * ''[[The Deformed Transformed]]'' (1822) | ||
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| + | * "[[Lachin y Gair]]" (1807) | ||
| + | * "[[Epitaph to a Dog]]" (1808) | ||
| + | * "[[Maid of Athens, ere we part]]" (1810) | ||
| + | * ''[[Hebrew Melodies]]'' (1815) | ||
| + | **"[[She Walks in Beauty]]" | ||
| + | **"[[The Destruction of Sennacherib]]" | ||
| + | * "[[Fare Thee Well (poem)|Fare Thee Well]]" (1816) | ||
| + | * ''[[Irish Avatar]]'' (1821) | ||
| + | * "[[So, we'll go no more a roving]]" (1830) | ||
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| + | * ''[[Fragment of a Novel]]'' (1819) | ||
| + | * [[Byron's letters|Letters]] | ||
| + | * [[Byron's Memoirs|Memoirs]] | ||
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| + | * [[Byron (play)|''Byron'' (1908 play)]] | ||
| + | * [[Bride of Frankenstein|''The Bride of Frankenstein'' (1935 film)]] | ||
| + | * [[The Bad Lord Byron|''The Bad Lord Byron'' (1949 film)]] | ||
| + | * [[Camino Real (play)|''Camino Real'' (1953 play)]] | ||
| + | * [[Lord Byron (opera)|''Lord Byron'' (1972 opera)]] | ||
| + | * [[Lady Caroline Lamb (film)|''Lady Caroline Lamb'' (1972 film)]] | ||
| + | * [[Childe Byron|''Childe Byron'' (1977 play)]] | ||
| + | * [[Bloody Poetry|''Bloody Poetry'' (1984 play)]] | ||
| + | * [[Gothic (film)|''Gothic'' (1986 film)]] | ||
| + | * [[Rowing with the Wind|''Rowing with the Wind'' (1988 film)]] | ||
| + | * [[Haunted Summer|''Haunted Summer'' (1988 film)]] | ||
| + | * [[Mary Shelley (film)|''Mary Shelley'' (2017 film)]] | ||
| + | * [[The Haunting of Villa Diodati|"The Haunting of Villa Diodati" (2020 TV episode)]] | ||
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| + | * [[Villa Diodati]] | ||
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| == See also == | == See also == | ||
| *[[Bad boy]] | *[[Bad boy]] | ||
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"I dare say […] that Byron and de Sade […] have been perhaps the two greatest inspirations of our moderns, one openly and visibly, the other clandestine - though not too clandestine."--Sainte-Beuve, 1843, tr. Geerinck "Mad, bad and dangerous to know" “The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to Gaming – to Battle – to Travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every imaginable description whose principle attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.” --Lord Byron "We of the craft are all crazy, but I more than the rest; some are affected by gaiety, others by melancholy, but all are more or less touched." --Lord Byron cited in A Journal Of The Conversations Of Lord Byron With The Countess Of Blessington (1834) by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington What man call gallantry and Gods adultery --Byron |
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George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Among Lord Byron's best-known works are the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. The latter remained incomplete on his death. He was regarded as one of the greatest European poets and remains widely read.
Lord Byron's fame rests not only in his writings but also in his life, which featured extravagant living, numerous love affairs, debts, separation, and allegations of incest and sodomy. He was famously described by Lady Caroline Lamb as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know." Byron served as a regional leader of Italy's revolutionary organization the Carbonari in its struggle against Austria, and later travelled to fight against the Turks in the Greek War of Independence, for which the Greeks consider him a national hero. He died from fever in Missolonghi.
His daughter Ada Lovelace, notable in her own right, collaborated with Charles Babbage on the analytical engine, a predecessor to modern computers.
Byron and the moderns
- In 1843 famed critic Sainte-Beuve wrote that Byron and Sade "are perhaps the two greatest inspirations of our moderns, the first openly and visibly, the second clandestinely, but not very.
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- Anne Isabella, Lady Byron (wife)
- Ada Lovelace (daughter)
- Allegra Byron (daughter)
- John "Mad Jack" Byron (father)
- Claire Clairmont
- Nicolo Giraud
- Contessa Guiccioli
- Jane Harley
- John Cam Hobhouse
- Douglas Kinnaird
- Lady Caroline Lamb
- Augusta Leigh (maternal half-sister)
- Medora Leigh
- Thomas Moore
- Isaac Nathan
- Walter Scott
- John William Polidori
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Mary Shelley
- Edward John Trelawny
- Hours of Idleness (1807)
- English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809)
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812–1818)
- The Giaour (1813)
- The Bride of Abydos (1813)
- The Corsair (1814)
- Lara, A Tale (1814)
- The Siege of Corinth (1816)
- Parisina (1816)
- The Prisoner of Chillon (1816)
- The Dream (1816)
- Prometheus (1816)
- "Darkness" (1816)
- The Lament of Tasso (1817)
- Beppo (1818)
- Don Juan (1819–1824; incomplete upon Byron's 1824 death)
- Mazeppa (1819)
- The Prophecy of Dante (1819)
- The Vision of Judgment (1821)
- The Age of Bronze (1823)
- The Island (1823)
- Manfred (1817)
- Marino Faliero (1820)
- Sardanapalus (1821)
- The Two Foscari (1821)
- Cain (1821)
- Heaven and Earth (1821)
- Werner (1822)
- The Deformed Transformed (1822)
- "Lachin y Gair" (1807)
- "Epitaph to a Dog" (1808)
- "Maid of Athens, ere we part" (1810)
- Hebrew Melodies (1815)
- "Fare Thee Well" (1816)
- Irish Avatar (1821)
- "So, we'll go no more a roving" (1830)
- Fragment of a Novel (1819)
- Letters
- Memoirs
- Byron (1908 play)
- The Bride of Frankenstein (1935 film)
- The Bad Lord Byron (1949 film)
- Camino Real (1953 play)
- Lord Byron (1972 opera)
- Lady Caroline Lamb (1972 film)
- Childe Byron (1977 play)
- Bloody Poetry (1984 play)
- Gothic (1986 film)
- Rowing with the Wind (1988 film)
- Haunted Summer (1988 film)
- Mary Shelley (2017 film)
- "The Haunting of Villa Diodati" (2020 TV episode)
See also
