Lord Gordon Byron

Lord Gordon Byron

Many years passed after the end of Romanticism period where Lord George Gordon Byron was one of most significant writers. Many different events happened during this period of time that changed politics, culture and economics of society. However, people cannot forget person that played a huge role in the Romantic Movement. There are many opinions about Lord Byron, about his life and his poetry. Those opinions can be included in one question about Byron. Were his poetry and Byronic hero made by Byron, or these things were created in the society of that time, and Byron only reflected it in his poems? “Although many contemporary critics considered his work immoral and inferior, Lord Byron is now recognized as one of the most important poets of the nineteenth century.”(Authors and Artists for Young Adults 547) Usually Romanticism associated with youthful minimalism, egoism and aggravated emotional condition. Also, it is beautiful by the passion and sensuality that it has.

Byron’s character could be seen not only through his literature but also through his life as well. Lord Byron was a man whose passion for life seemed unequaled by any of the other Romantic figures. The Byronic Hero is the most significant gift to literature that Lord Byron made. “He created an immensely popular Romantic hero--defiant, melancholy, haunted by secret guilt--for which, to many, he seemed the model” (Cooke 34) This hero had many qualities that Byron had and showed during his life. The life of Lord Byron and his heroes has many similarities. The most interesting quality that links heroes with Byron is his passionate manner by which he pursues his life “in his total alienation he now actively assumes the tragic fatality which turns natural instinct into unforgivable sin, and he deliberately takes his rebellious stance as an outcast against all accepted notions of the right order of things.” (Encyclopedia of World Biography). The way that Lord Byron sought pleasure for...