拜伦生平简介(英文版)及部分诗作.docxVIP

Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) was as famous in his lifetime for his personality cult as for his poetry. He created the concept of the Byronic hero - a defiant, melancholy young man, brooding on some mysterious, unforgivable event in his past. Byrons influence on European poetry, music, novel, opera, and painting has been immense, although the poet was widely condemned on moral grounds by his contemporaries. George Gordon, Lord Byron, was the son of Captain John Byron, and Catherine Gordon. He was born with a club foot and became extreme sensitivity about his lameness. Byron spent his