George Gordon, Lord Byron, born in London in 1788, had suffered a tempestuous childhood. His father left when he was only a year old and he lived with his mother on a limited income. This was until Byron inherited the Byron estate at the age of ten. In 1805, Byron attended Cambridge University where he participated in a few sports: boxing, fencing, and swimming. He pushed himself physically as he had a clubfoot that gave him a limp. He gambled and lived an extravagant life which lead to a large debt. He hoped to steer clear of scandal by finally getting married, but his wife left him after only a year. This and rumors of incest caused him to move to Switzerland and then to Italy where he wrote Don Juan. In 1823, Byron sought to help the people of Greece in their fight for independence from Turkey. He died at age 36 after contracting a fever while training soldiers.
Lord Byron created a popular Romantic hero, also known as a Byronic hero, that is defiant and brooding.…show more content… In this work, Shelley was able to express his beliefs through the titular villain of the novel without having those opinions tied to him. Yet, the early reviews of this work and Original Poetry; by Victor and Cazire, were not good. At Oxford he wrote The Necessity of Atheism, which ended up getting him expelled. Shelley and his friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg published Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson. It was a joint collection of poems that neither author put their name on as they could have gone to prison for it on convictions of treason because of its contents. A few of Shelley’s works were pamphlets written about his political ideas and opinions that include An Address, to the Irish People, Proposals for an Association of those Philanthropists, and A Letter to Lord Ellenborough. One of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s best long-form poems is Queen Mab in which he used a utopian perspective to criticize the
