LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON)

(1788-1824)

Works

Lord Byron was an incredible and prolific writer important for his contribution to literature with the “Byronic hero”, a character whose attributes are a great talent, exhibition of a great passion, to have a distaste for society and social institutions, to express a lack of respect for rank and privilege, thwarted in love by social constraint or death, rebelling, suffering exile, hiding a obscure past, arrogance, overconfidence or lack of foresight and a self-destructive behaviour.

Here we can see some of the most important works:

-         Hours  of Idleness 1807

-         The Cornelian 1807

-         Epitaph to a Dog 1808

-         English Bards and Scotch reviewers 1809

-         Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 1812-18

-         The Giaour 1813

-         The Bride of Abydos 1813

-         The Corsair 1814

-         She walks in Beauty 1814

-         Lara 1814

-         Hebrew Melodies 1815

-         The Prisioner of Chillon 1816

-         Parisina 1816

-         The Dream 1816

-         Prometheus 1816

-         Darkness 1816

-         The Siege of Corinto poem 1816

-         Manfred 1817

-         The Lament of Tasso 1817

-         Beppo 1818

-         Mazeppa 1818

-         Marino Faliero 1821

-         The Prophecy of Dante 1821

-         The Two Foscari 1821

-         Sardanapoulus 1821

-         Cain 1821

-         Heaven and Earth 1821

-         The Vision of Judgement 1822

-         Werner 1822

-         The Deformed Tarnsformed 1824

-         The Age of Bronze 1823

-         The Island 1823

-         Don Juan, 1819-24 (incomplete due to Byron’s death in 1824) 

References:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_byron#Character -- it’s the Wikipedia, it isn’t necessary to say nothing more.

- http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/byron.htm -- a site where you can find information about many different authors.

- http://www.online-literature.com/byron -- a site we have seen in class, you can find his biography and part of his poetry. Remember this site if you need information about some author.

- http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=81299 – a site with good information about poetry and its authors.