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Chapter 10 The younger romantics/the Satanic School George Gordon Byron. Percy Bysshe Shelley. John Keats Lord Byron 1788-1824 Byron the person:? Clubfooted and handsome; A flamboyant society figure; Highly sensitive and high-strung; The national hero of the Greeks; A rebellious revolutionary spirit. Byron’s reputations: wax and wane In the mid-19th century: the leading poet not only in his own country but also in Europe. Today: ignored by critics and readers alike Reasons for his falling:? 1 A lot of noise but little substance 2 Relevant only to his times 3 Lacking in depth: Although he locates the ills of his age, he fails to prescribe cures. The Byronic hero? A hero of Byron’s own type, and also his aspiration for what he would like to become: Handsome, chivalrous, energetic, pathetic, lonely, remorseful over a sin, gloomy and misanthropic, sexually free, capable off generous acts and magnanimity. The archetypes of the Byronic hero: the protagonists in his two famous long poems? Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Don Juan. Byron Byron’s first collection of poems in 18th-century traditions, entitled Hours of Idleness, was cruelly attacked by a certain critic in the journal Eidingburgh Review. But Byron received it as a challenge and two years later came his reply, a satire, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, in which the periodical and its supporters were taken to task. Byron spoke in defence of the English proletariat and was a staunch champion of the people’s cause: Song for the Luddites Byron’s poems Byron’s oriental poems/tales: Giaour (people who don’t believe in Islam esp. the Christians), The Bride of Abydos, The Corsair (pirates or pirate ship), Lara, Parisina and The Siege of Corinth. Among Byron’s lyrical pieces, Hebrew Melodies is the most notable. poems written in Switzerland Byron first went to Switzerland, where he made acquaintance with Shelley. They visited the castle of Chillon, in which the Swiss revolutiona