"aristrocrat" - 1 õppematerjal

Outstanding figures in British literature

Fond Kiss and Tam o' Shanter. Lord Byron 1788 ­1824 One of the greatest British poets and a leading figure in the romantic movement, he remains widely read and influential His bestknown works are the lengthy narrative poems ,,Don Juan" and ,,Childe Harold's Pilgrimage "and the short lyric "She Walks in Beauty". He travelled to fight the Ottomans in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero died at 36 years in Greece Lived as a true aristrocrat, had huge debts, numerous love affairs, there were rumors of a scandalous incestuous romance with his halfsister and selfimposed exile It has been speculated that he suffered from bipolar disorder and was bisexual The Byronic hero The Byronic hero is a variant of the Romantic hero as a type of character, named after Lord Byron. Both Byron's life and writings have been considered in different ways to exemplify the type. The Byronic hero first appears in Byron's semi