英国文学史及选读第三周.docVIP

英国文学史及选读第三周 Lesson 3　ⅠGeorge Gordon Byron 　1. 一般识记 His Life　　English poet, born George Gordon Byron, in London, England, Jan. 22, 1788, and died in Missolonghi, Greece, April 19, 1824.Lord Byron was perhaps the most fascinating influential literary personality of the Romantic age. An eloquent poet, handsome nobleman, political rebel, he was one of the most popular notorious figures of the 19th century.　　He was educated first at Harrow then Cambridge. In 1807, a volume of Byrons poems, Hours of Idleness, was published. A very harsh review of this work in the Edinburgh Review prompted a satirical reply from Byron in heroic couplets, entitled English Bards Scotch Reviewers (1809), in which Byron lashed not only his reviewers, but also the conservative schools of contemporary poetry, showing his lasting contempt for what he considered the commonplace vulgarity of the Lake Poets. 　　In 1811, Byron took his seat in the House of Lords, made vehement speeches, attacking the reactionary policy of the English government, showing his great sympathy for the oppressed poor. At the news of the Greek revolt against the Turks, Byron not only gave the insurgent Greeks financial help but plunged himself into the struggle for the national independence of that country. In July 1823, Byron joined the Greek insurgents at Missolonghi. The Greeks made him commander in chief of their forces in January 1824. Because of several months hard work under bad weather, Byron fell ill died. The whole Greek nation mourned over his death. 　2. 识记 His Literary Career 　　In 1807, a volume of Byrons poems, Hours of idleness, was published. In 1809, he wrote a satirical reply to a harsh review in the Edinburgh Review in heroic couplets, entitled English Bards Scotch Reviewers. The publication in 1812 of the first two cantos of Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, a poem narrating his travels between 1809 1811 in Europe, brought Byron fame. In the following two years. He had written a number of long ve