1.Introduction(by Julia Fernández Chiva)

Romanticism is a movement in art and literature that took place in the 18th and 19th centuries. The ideologies and events of the French Revolution were highly influential for this movement, because in part it is a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms.

Imagination, emotion and freedom are the central points of Romanticism. This movement includes subjectivity and an emphasis on individualism, freedom from rules, the beliefs that imagination is superior to reason, love and worship of nature and fascination with the past, especially the myths and mysticism of the Middle Ages.

The most important English poets of this movement are William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Percy Shelley, John Keats and Lord Byron. From them, in this work we are going to focus on Lord Byron, a British poet who became an important figure in Romanticism.

George Gordon Byron was born 22 January 1788 in London. He at Aberdeen Grammar School. In 1801 he was sent to Harrow, where he remained until 1805, when he moved to Trinity College in Cambridge.

He published his earliest verses in 1806, and he followed those in 1807 with ‘Hours of Idleness’, which the Edinburgh Review, a whing periodical, savagely attacked. In reply, Byron sent forth ‘English Bards and Scotch Reviewers’ (1809), which created considerable stir and shortly went through five editions. While some authors resented being satirized in its first edition, over time, in subsequent editions it became a mark of prestige to be the target of Byron pen.

He took the traditional Grand Tour of Europe visiting Spain, Portugal, Italy and the Balkans and after his return from his travels, the first two editions of ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’ were published in 1812, and were received with acclamation.

Byron first marriage to Anne Isabella Millbanke lasted little more than a year despite siring a daughter, Augusta Ada. The separation of this marriage was played out in public and it was a scandal.

The controversy forced Byron to leave England in 1817 and then he went to Switzerland. Byron continued to be hugely successful in England despite his exile, producing further Cantos of ‘Childe Harold’ and embarking on further epic poems, ‘The Prsioner of Chillon’ and ‘Don Juan’. This last one remained incomplete on his death. He died from fever in Missolonghi, Greece, in 1824; and his body was paraded to crows through the streets of London.

2.Influences on Byron (by Josué Álvarez Conejos and Paola Enguix Fernández)

3.Byron’s characteristics and examples (by Jessica Aguilar Vinyoles and Cristina Camps Pérez)

4.Byronism (by Aina García Coll and Thais Martínez Alonso)

5.Byron’s influence on other poets (by Mª José Jorquera Hervas)

6.Conclusion (by Manuela Elisa Blanes Monllor, Mª Llanos García Martínez and Krysia Cogollos Latham-Koenig)