Contribution of Byron or note on Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
The most flamboyant and notorious of the major Romantics, George Gordon, Lord Byron, was likewise the most fashionable poet of the day. He created an immensely popular Romantic hero - defiant, melancholy, haunted by secret guilt - for which, to many, he seemed the model. Byron captivated the Western mind and heart as few writers have, stamping upon 19th century letters, arts, politics, even clothing styles, his image and name as the embodiment of Romanticism.
Lord Byron was renowned as the "gloomy egoist" of his autobiographical poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage in the 19th Century, he is now more generally esteemed for the satiric realism of Don Juan. At the beginning of March, the first two cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage were published by John Murray and Byron "work to find himself famous". The poem describes the travels and reflections of a young man who, disillusioned with the life of pleasure and revelry, looks for distraction in foreign lands. Besides furnishing a travelogue of Byron's own wanderings through the Mediterranean, the first two cantos expresses the melancholy and disillusionment felt by a generation weary of the wars of post-Revolutionary and Napoleonic era. In the poem Byron reflects upon the vanity of ambition, the transitory nature of pleasure, and the futility of the search for perfection in the course of a "pilgrimage" through Portugal, Spain, Albania and Greece. In the wake of Childe Harold's enormous popularity, Byron was lionized in the Whig society.
One of his major contributions to the English Romantic movement was the Byronic Hero that first appeared in his famous work Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Byronic Hero is a romantic hero with some interesting features like a conflicted dark side, low birth status/often outcaste, a heart with deep-seated pain, sexually exciting and mystical personality, revengeful and self destructive nature etc. (he is almost an anti-hero).
Some other notable works of him are English Bards and Scoth Reviewers, The Prisoner of Chillon, Hours of Idleness, Manfred and Beppo.
Lord Byron influenced many Romantic writers and his Byronic Hero appeared to be significant character in many other works like Wuthering Heights by Emile Bronte (Heathcliff), Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Rochester) and many others.
Lord Byron was renowned as the "gloomy egoist" of his autobiographical poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage in the 19th Century, he is now more generally esteemed for the satiric realism of Don Juan. At the beginning of March, the first two cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage were published by John Murray and Byron "work to find himself famous". The poem describes the travels and reflections of a young man who, disillusioned with the life of pleasure and revelry, looks for distraction in foreign lands. Besides furnishing a travelogue of Byron's own wanderings through the Mediterranean, the first two cantos expresses the melancholy and disillusionment felt by a generation weary of the wars of post-Revolutionary and Napoleonic era. In the poem Byron reflects upon the vanity of ambition, the transitory nature of pleasure, and the futility of the search for perfection in the course of a "pilgrimage" through Portugal, Spain, Albania and Greece. In the wake of Childe Harold's enormous popularity, Byron was lionized in the Whig society.
One of his major contributions to the English Romantic movement was the Byronic Hero that first appeared in his famous work Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Byronic Hero is a romantic hero with some interesting features like a conflicted dark side, low birth status/often outcaste, a heart with deep-seated pain, sexually exciting and mystical personality, revengeful and self destructive nature etc. (he is almost an anti-hero).
Some other notable works of him are English Bards and Scoth Reviewers, The Prisoner of Chillon, Hours of Idleness, Manfred and Beppo.
Lord Byron influenced many Romantic writers and his Byronic Hero appeared to be significant character in many other works like Wuthering Heights by Emile Bronte (Heathcliff), Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Rochester) and many others.
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