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Lord Byron

别名: George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron 出生: 22/01/1788 逝世: 19/04/1824 性别: Male 职业: Poet

Dedicated to freedom of thought and action, and anarchic in his political views and personal morality, the poet and adventurer Lord Byron was the personification of the Romantic hero. Famous for his dashing good looks, his controversial opinions and his recklessness, he was a leading figure in the Romantic movement, of which Wordsworth and Coleridge were a part. Byron was catapulted to fame after the publication of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage in 1812, but his most famous and hugely successful work was the satiric epic Don Juan, which he began to publish in 1819, and had still not finished in 1824, when he died of fever at Missolonghi, where he had sailed to support the Greek fight for independence.

照片来源: by Richard Westall, oil on canvas, 1813

主要作品

Lord Byron’s Don Juan

英文标题: Don Juan 出版日期: 1819–24 格式: Poetry 文学时期: Romantic 类型: Romantic poetry 了解该作品

Lord Byron’s ‘Love and Gold’

英文标题: 'Love and Gold' 出版日期: 1812-1813 格式: Poem 文学时期: Romantic 类型: Romantic poetry 了解该作品

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1772-1834

William Wordsworth

1770-1850

William Blake

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