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George Gordon, lord Byron(1788-1824) 他被歌德誉为“19世纪最富天才的诗人” 普希金奉他为“思想界的君王” House of Lord Byron House of Lord Byron Life Byron, a beautiful lame, had an unfortunate childhood. His father died when he was only three years old. He and his mother lived in loneliness and poverty for some years. His mother had a moody character. At one moment she showed her passion for the boy; at another, she hurt him by mocking at his deformity and maddened him by her furies of rage. The boy’s Fate changed suddenly when his granduncle William, 5th Baron Byron, died in 1798. He inherited the title and the Byron estate, and then he studied at Harrow, where he wrote a number of poems. He was not famous until the first two cantos of Child Harold published in 1812. In the following years, his fame as a poet rose steadily. He became an idol of the English society, and was pursued by adoring ladies. Byron was a dissolute person in nature and plunged into a series of notorious love affairs, including the love with his stepsister. His marriage was quickly followed by a separation from his wife. The Londoners, after hearing his stories, considered him as “immoral”, rejecting him from their social circle. Slanderous tongues and rumors eventually drove Byron to foreign lands. On May 19, 1824, Byron died of rheumatic fever (风湿热) in Greece. “The Poet Corner” in Westminster refused to accept him until 1969, almost 150 years after his death. Literary works His best-known works are the narrative poems Child Harold’s Pilgrimage and Don Juan (恰尔德 · 哈罗尔德游记，唐 · 璜). 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 Milton’s Paradise Lost. Byron’s 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 traveled to fight on the Greek side in t