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• George Gordon Byron - commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in Romanticism.

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• Byron's best-known works are the brief poems:
• “ She Walks in Beauty”
• “ When We Two Parted”
• “ So, we'll go no more a roving”

• George Gordon Byron was born in London.
• He was the son of Caterine Gordon.
• Then after his father fled from creditors to France and Caterine Gordon took her son to Scotland,Aberdeen.
• Byron ’s father died when he was 3,and the boy was educated at home and later at Aberdeen Grammar School.

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• In 1798 Byron’s great-uncle died,leaving the 10-year-old boy the family home at Newstead Abbey but very little fortune.
• He went to Harrow and his first poems were written there.
• In 1805 Byron entered to Trinity College, Cambridge ,where he cultivated a reputation for high-spirited and profligate behaviour that belied the real achievments of his undergraduated years.

• In 1807 he published “Hours of Ldleness”-collection of lyrics.
• After returning to England he completed the first two cantos of the poem begun in Albania.
• “ Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”(1812) made him famous.
• In 1815 Byron married Annabella Milbanke ,but their marrige lasted little more than a year.
• After the birth of their daughter ,she left him.

• Then Byron went to Veice.
• In this period “Manfred”,”Mazeppa”,and the first cantons of “Don Juan” were written.
• His connection with Teresa,Countess Guiccioli,begun in Veice in April 1819 and proved a lasting one.
• In April 1824 he caught a severe chill after being soaked to the skin in an open boat.
• Rheumatic fever set in and Byron died on 19 1824.

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• The Greeks wished to bury him in Athens,but only his heart stayed in Greece.
• His body was returned to England but refused burial in Westminster Abbey.