Graduated from Cambridge University. He is a member of the House of Lords. When I was a student, I was deeply influenced by the Enlightenment. 1809-1811year, he traveled to Spain, Greece, Turkey and other countries, and was inspired by the anti-aggression and anti-oppression struggles of people from all over the world, and created the Travels of Childe Harold. His masterpieces include Childe Harold's Travels and Don Juan. In his poems, he created many "Byronic heroes". They are aloof, fanatical and romantic, but full of rebellious spirit. Their hearts are full of loneliness and depression, but they despise small groups. Childe Harold is the first Byronic hero in Byron's poems. The most representative, combative and brilliant work in Byron's poetry is his long poem Don Juan, which describes the romantic stories of Don Juan, the son of Spanish aristocrats, such as travel, love and adventure, exposes the dark, ugly and hypocritical side of society and plays the battle song for freedom, happiness and liberation. Byron was not only a great poet, but also a fighter who struggled for his ideals all his life. He actively and bravely joined the revolution, participated in the Greek national liberation movement and became one of the leaders.
From1809-1811,Byron traveled abroad to the East in order to "meet people, not just read about them in books", and also to sweep away "the harmful consequences of an islander staying at home with narrow prejudice". During the trip, he began to write Childe. Haller's travels and other poems, and brewing future oriental story poems in his heart. "Childe. The first and second chapters of Haller's Travels came out in February 18 12, which caused a sensation in the literary world and made Byron a star in London society. However, this did not make him compromise with the British aristocratic bourgeoisie. He has been aware of the stubbornness, hypocrisy, evil and prejudice of this society and its ruling class since he was a child, and his poems have always been a protest against all this.
1811-1816, Byron has been living in a constant emotional vortex. In his popular social life, there is a lot of love to take part in accidental amusement, and the affair of a young aristocratic poet is naturally more talked about. Byron proposed to an Anna milbank on 18 13 and married her on 18 15 1. This is the biggest mistake Byron made in his life. Mrs. Byron is a narrow-minded person, deeply influenced by the hypocrisy of her class, and can't understand Byron's career and views at all. One year after his marriage, he returned home with his daughter, who had just been born for more than a month, and refused to live with Byron, thus causing rumors. The British ruling class took this opportunity to take the craziest revenge on its traitor Byron in an attempt to destroy the poet who dared to be his enemy. The painful feelings of this period also made him write poems like Prometheus, expressing his determination to resist the oppressors to the end.
Byron left England forever in April 19 16. A biographer said that he was "driven out of the country, and his money belt and heart were ruined." He left and never came back; But after he left, he found new inspiration by the rapids of the Jon River and wrote works that made his name immortal under the Italian sky. "
18 16, Byron lived in Switzerland and met another exiled poet Shelley in Geneva. Their hatred of British rule and their love of poetry made them close friends.
While living abroad, Byron wrote Childe Haller's Travels (18 16-1817) and the story poem Prisoner of Xiyong (1816). Don Juan, the representative work, is Byron's most important group of poems, which is half poetic, half harmonious, half narrative and half argument, with realistic content, strange, relaxed and ironic brushwork. After the first and second chapters were published anonymously, they immediately caused great repercussions. British newspapers defending bourgeois decency rose up and attacked it, accusing it of attacking religion and morality, which was "a mockery of decency, good feelings and the code of conduct necessary for maintaining society" and "disgusting to every normal mind", and so on.
But it is also highly respected. Writer Walter Scott said that Don Juan was "as comprehensive as Shakespeare, he covered every topic of life, plucked every string on the sacred piano and played the smallest, strongest and most shocking tune." Goethe, a poet, said, "Don Juan is a work of complete genius-cynical to the point of almost desperate vitriol, gentle to delicate and touching feelings ...". After the sixteenth chapter of Don Juan was written, Byron was ready to devote himself to the national liberation movement in Greece.
This is the poet's last and most brilliant career. He hated both holy alliance's oppression of European nations and Turkish rule of Greece. 1824, Byron was busy preparing for the war. It's a pity that he caught a cold in the rain and couldn't afford to get sick. He died on April 65438, 2009. His death made the Greek people extremely sad, and the whole country mourned for 2 1 day.
Looking back on his life, his poems and his spirit is enough to convince anyone who can feel it: Byron is not only a great poet, but also a poet that is always needed in the world, laughing at his meanness and inspiring him to take higher actions.