Biography of J -Byron

Born: January 22, Poverty, in which Byron was born, and from which the Lord's title did not save his direction of his future career. When he was born, his father had already lowered all his lands, and his mother returned from Europe with small remnants of her condition. Lady Byron settled in Aberdine, and her “lame little boy”, as she called her son, was given for a year to a private school, then transferred to a classic gymnasium.

There are many stories about Byron's children's tricks. The sisters of Gray, who nursed the little Byron, found that we could do with affection with him, anything, but his mother always lost his herself from his disobedience and threw anything at the boy. To ... his mother’s outbreaks, he often answered with ridicule, but once, as he himself told, he took away a knife with which he wanted to stab himself.

He studied poorly at the gymnasium, and Mary Gray, who read the psalms and the Bible to him, brought him more benefit than gymnasium teachers. In May, having become Par, ten -year -old Byron fell in love with his cousin Mary Duff that, having heard about her engagement, fell into a hysterical seizure. He entered the school of Dr. Gleni, where he stayed for two years and treated his sore leg all the time, after which he got better enough to put on boots.

In these two years, he studied very little, but read the entire rich library of the doctor. Before leaving for school in Harrow, Byron fell in love again - in another cousin, Margarita Parker, and in anticipation of a meeting with her could neither eat nor sleep. He left for Harrow; Dead languages ​​and antiquity did not attract him at all, but he read all the English classics with great interest and left school with great knowledge.

At school, he was famous for the knightly attitude towards his comrades and that he always stood up for the younger ones. During the holidays, he fell in love again, but this time it is much more serious than before - in Miss Chavort - a girl whose father killed the "bad Lord Byron." In the sad moments of his life, he often regretted that she rejected him.

At Cambridge University, Byron deepened his scientific knowledge. But he was more distinguished by the art of swimming, riding, boxing, drinking, playing cards, etc. In Harrow, Byron wrote several poems, and his first book appeared in the press - “Leisure Watch”. This collection of poems decided his fate: having released the collection, Byron became a completely different person.

Merciless criticism appeared in the "Edinburgh review" only a year later, for which the poet wrote a large number of poems. This criticism immediately after the release of the book, Byron, perhaps, would completely abandon poetry. With this satire, he answered the Edinburgh review. The criticism of the first book terribly upset Byron, but his answer - “English bards and Scottish observers” - he published only in the spring the success of the satire was huge and was able to satisfy the wounded poet.

In June of the same year, Byron went on a trip. It can be assumed that the young poet, having won a brilliant victory over his literary enemies, went abroad satisfied and happy, but this was not so. Byron left England in a terribly depressed state of mind, and, having visited Spain, Albania, Greece, Turkey and Asia Minor, returned even more oppressed. Many, identifying him with Child Harold, suggested that abroad, like his hero, he led a too immoderate life, but Byron was printed and verbally against this, emphasizing that Child Garold is only the fruit of the imagination.

Thomas Moore spoke in defense of Byron that he was too poor to keep a harem, and, in addition, there was a romantic passion for an unknown girl who went with him, dressed as a boy. In addition, Byron was disturbed not only by financial difficulties. At this time, he lost his mother, and at least never got along with her, but, nevertheless, he grieved very much.

The poem was fabulous success, and 14 of its copies dispersed in one day, which immediately put the author to a series of first literary celebrities. Why Chalda Harold was such a success, Byron did not know, and only said: "One morning I woke up and saw myself famous." The journey of Child Harold carried not only England, but all of Europe. The poet touched on the universal struggle of that time, spoke with sympathy about the Spanish peasants, the heroism of women, and his hot cry of freedom was far away, despite the seeming cynical tone of the poem.

At this difficult moment of universal tension, he recalled the dead greatness of Greece. In this poem, the author for the first time introduces the type of literary hero, who will later receive the name of the byronic hero. Byron was familiar with Mur, and he introduced him into high society as a “lion”.

Until that time, he has never been in a large light and now he was enthusiastic about the whirlwind of social life. One evening, Dallas even found him in a court dress, although Byron did not go to the court. In the large light of Lame Byron, he never felt free and tried to cover his awkwardness.In March, he issued a “waltz” satire without a signature, while in May he printed a story from the Turkish life “Giaur”, inspired by his trip to the Levant.

The audience enthusiastically accepted this story about love and revenge and with great enthusiasm met the poems “Abidos bride” and “Corsair”, published in the same year. In him, he published “Jewish melodies”, which had a tremendous success and many times translated into all European languages, as well as the poem “Lara” in November Byron made Miss Milbenk’s proposal, daughter of Ralph Milbenk, a rich baronet, granddaughter and heiress of Lord Wenbage.

He was refused, but Miss Milbenk expressed a desire to enter into correspondence with him. In September, Byron resumed his proposal, and it was accepted, and in January they got married. In December, Byron had a daughter named Hell, and the next month, Lady Byron left her husband in London and left for the estate to her father. From the road, she wrote her husband an affectionate letter, beginning with the words: “Dear Dick”, and signed: “Your Poppin”.

A few days later, Byron learned from her father that she decided to never return to him again, and after that Lady Byron herself notified him of this. A month later, a formal divorce took place. Byron suspected that his wife parted with him under the influence of her mother. Lady Byron took all the responsibility for herself. Before her departure, she called for a consultation by Dr.

Boli and asked him if her husband was crazy. The pain assured her that it only seems to her. After that, she told her relatives that she wished for a divorce. The reasons for the divorce were expressed by the mother of Lady Byron Dr. Lesington, and he wrote that these reasons are justifying the divorce, but at the same time advised the spouses to reconcile. After that, Lady Byron herself was at Dr.

Leshington and informed him of facts, after which he also could not find reconciliation. The true reasons for the divorce of Byron spouses forever remained mysterious, although Byron said that "they are too simple, and therefore they are not noticed." The audience did not want to explain the divorce of the simple reason that people did not agree on their characters. Lady Byron refused to tell the reasons for the divorce, and therefore these reasons in the imagination of the public turned into something fantastic, and everyone tried to see in a divorce of crimes, one worse than the other.

The publication of the poem “Farewell to Lady Byron”, released by one immodest friend of the poet, raised a whole pack of ill -wishers against him. But not everyone condemned Byron. One employee of the “courier” said that if her husband wrote such a “farewell”, she would not slow down to rush into his arms. In April, Byron finally said goodbye to England, where public opinion, in the person of “lake poets”, was very excited against him.

Before leaving abroad, he sold his Newsted estate, and this gave Byron the opportunity not to be burdened by a constant lack of money. Now he could indulge in solitude that he was so longing. Abroad, he settled in Villa Diadash, not far from Geneva. Byron spent summer at the villa, making two small excursions in Switzerland: one with a Hobgauz, the other with the poet Shelley.

In the third song, Childe Harold, he describes his trip to Waterlo's fields. The thought of writing “Manfred” visited him when he saw Jungfrau on the way back to Geneva. In November, Byron moved to Venice, where, according to his ill -wishers, he led the most depraved life, which, however, did not prevent him from creating a large number of poetic works. In June, the poet wrote the fourth song “Child Garold”, in October - “BEPPO”, in July - “Odu to Venice”, in September - the first song “Don Juan”, in October - “Mazeppu”, in December - the second song “Don Zhuan”, in November - the third and fourth song “Don Zhuan”.

In April, he met with Countess Gvichchioli, and they fell in love with each other. The countess was forced to go to Ravenna with her husband, where Byron went after her. Two years later, Father and Brother Countess - the counts of Gamba, involved in the political scandal, were supposed to leave Ravenna along with Countess Gvichioli, who had already been diluted at that time.

Byron followed them in Pisa, where he still lived under the same roof with the countess. At this time, Byron was grieved from the loss of his friend Shelley, drowning in the Gulf of Species. In September, the Tuscan government ordered Count Gamba to leave Pisa, and Byron followed them to Genoa. Byron lived with the countess until his departure to Greece and at that time wrote a lot.

In April, Byron visited the island of St. Lazarya Venice. In July, Byron left Italy to join the Greek rebels who waged war for independence against the Ottoman Empire. At his own expense, he bought English brig, supplies, weapons and equipped half a thousand soldiers with whom he sailed to Greece on July 14. Nothing was ready there, the leaders of the movement did not get along with each other much.

Meanwhile, the costs grew, and Byron ordered the sale of all his property in England, and gave the money to the just cause of the rebel movement.Of great importance in the struggle for the freedom of Greece was Byron's talent in the unification of inconsistent groups of Greek rebels. Bairon fell into Missolongi with a fever, continuing to give all his forces to the struggle for the freedom of the country.

And Byron read: "Today I am 36 years old." Constantly the sore Byron was very disturbed by the disease of his daughter Ada. Having received a letter with a good news of her recovery, he wanted to leave for a walk with Count Gamba. During the walk, terrible rain went, and Byron finally stumbled. His last words were fragmentary phrases: “My sister! His body was taken to England and buried in the birth crypt of Byron.

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