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Lecture 12 Lord Byron Introduction to George Gordon Byron born in an impoverished noble family in London in 1788, a year before the French Revolution. His father was a captain nicknamed Mad Jack, who had squandered away the money of the poets mother and then deserted her. For some years mother and son lived in loneliness and poverty in Scotland. His mother, a passionate woman, petted and abused him alternately. Byron was born with a clubfoot, and in the frequent family scenes his mother called him you lame brat.” So the poets early years had been far from happy. In 1815, Byron marri