George Gordon Byron
George Gordon Byron was the embodyment of romanticism and the showman of romanticism. His vigour was dislayed in his demands for freedom,liberalism and for idealism. He influenced his contemporary society as no other literary personality had, and he imprinted his image on the XIXth century as the most spectacular representative of romanticism.
Byron's exhuberant romanticism brought him enormous popularity. This impression may be the main one which attributed him as youthful energy. His romantic pesimism it's reflected in all his creation. Byron's heroes are titans who fight desperatly with a cruel world of men. The cause of his pesimism may be :
-the international chaos of Napoleon's Age, which disrupted European society.
-England transformed from a traditional,aristocratic world of rural agriculture to a bourgeois society,of urban industrialisation.
-the romantic writter was interested in themes such: sin,struggle,guilt and remorse
Byron was the XVIIIth century satirist, and became famous after writting English Bards and Scotch Reviewers and during his career,he wrote similar satirs. If he hadn't written anything else, he would have been considered an imitator of the writers John Dryden and Alexander Pope. Byron's satirs are probably the best examples to reveal the poet's critical nature.
His reputation may be well represented by poems such as Don Juan. In this poem and some others, the poet speaks directly to the reader as a fully experienced person who has been everywhere and who has done everything.
Some other works of George Byron,apart from English Bards and Scotch Reviewer,are:
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