Byron edit 英国文学史及选读课件.ppt

Characteristics of Byron’s Works Although many of Byron’s works are debated by the critics, he is still one of the influential figures in the history of English literature. In most of his works, we can see Byrons violent attack on Cant politics, religion and morals, his novelty of the oriental scenery, the romantic character of Byronically hero and the easy, fluent and natural beauty of his verse. Byrons diction, though unequal and frequently faulty, has on a whole a freedom, copiousness and vigor. His descriptions are simple and fresh, and often bring vivid objects before the reader. The glowing imagination of the poet rises and falls with the tones of his enthusiasm, roughing into argument, or softening into the melody feeling and sentiments as Colonel Stanhope described: a stream sometimes smooth, sometimes rapid and sometimes rushing down in cataracts—a mixture of philosophy and slang--of everything.” George Gordon Byron1788 ? ~? 1824 The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore. ---Lord Byron Introduction  ?The?most?renowned?English language?poet?of?his?day.?His?best known?works?are?the?narrative?poems?Childe?Harolds?Pilgrimage? and?Don?Juan.?The?latter?remained?incomplete?on?his?death.?A? poem?spanning?17?cantos,?Don?Juan,?ranks?as?one?of?the?most? important?long?poems?published?in?England?since?Miltons?Paradise?Lost.? ?Byrons?fame?rests?not?only?on?his?writings,?but?also?on?his?life, ?which?featured?extravagant?living,?numerous?love?affairs,?debts,? separation,?allegations of?incest?and?bisexuality and?an?eventual? death?from?fever?after?he?travelled?to?fight?on?the?Greek?side?in?the?Greek?War?of?Independence.?He?was?famously?described?by?Lady? Caroline?Lamb?as?mad,?bad,?and?dangerous? to?know.? Lord George Gordon Noel Byron, w