6.1 Byron英国文学导读.pdf

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) Comment • George Gordon Byron was perhaps the most fascinating and influential literary figure of the Romantic age. • 1. Life and Career – Born into an ancient aristocratic family in 1788, and died in 1824 at the age of 36 – his father died when he was 3 – lived in loneliness and poverty in Aberdeen, Scotland – Inherited the title of a baron and a large estate at the age of ten – Educated first at Harrow and then Cambridge – in 1802, first met his half-sister, Augusta