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有没有英文的关于拜伦的生平?
有没有英文的关于拜伦的生平?

有没有英文的关于拜伦的生平?
George Gordon Byron,6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 鈥 19 April 1824) was an English poet and a leading figure in Romanticism.Among Lord Byron's best-known works are the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan.The latter remained incomplete on his death.He was regarded as one of the greatest European poets,and is still widely read.
Lord Byron's fame rests not only on his writings,but also on his life,which featured extravagant living,numerous love affairs,debts,separation,and allegations of incest and sodomy; he was famously described by Lady Caroline Lamb as "mad,bad,and dangerous to know".Byron served as a regional leader of Italy's revolutionary organization the Carbonari in its struggle against Austria,and later travelled to fight against the Turks in the Greek War of Independence,for which the Greeks consider him a national hero.He died from fever in Missolonghi.
His daughter Ada Lovelace,notable in her own right,collaborated with Charles Babbage on the analytical engine,a predecessor to modern computers.
[Early life]
Catherine Gordon,Byron's motherByron was born in London,the son of Captain John "Mad Jack" Byron and his second wife,the former Catherine Gordon,heiress of Gight in Aberdeenshire.His paternal grandfather was Vice-Admiral John "Foulweather Jack" Byron,who had circumnavigated the globe,who was the younger brother of the 5th Baron Byron,known as "the Wicked Lord".He is one of the descendents of King Edward III of England.
From Byron's birth he suffered from a malformation of the right foot (clubfoot),causing a slight lameness,which resulted in lifelong misery for him,aggravated by the suspicion that with proper care it might have been cured.He was christened George Gordon after his maternal grandfather,George Gordon of Gight,a descendant of King James I.This grandfather committed suicide in 1779.Byron's mother Catherine had to sell her land and title to pay her father's debts.John Byron may have married Catherine for her money and,after squandering it,deserted her.Byron's parents separated before his birth.Catherine moved back to Scotland shortly afterwards,where she raised her son in Aberdeen until 21 May 1798,when the death of his great-uncle made him the 6th Baron Byron,inheriting Newstead Abbey,rented to Lord Grey de Ruthyn during Byron's adolescence.
He received his formal education at Aberdeen Grammar School.In 1801 he was sent to Harrow,where he remained until 1805,when he proceeded to Trinity College,Cambridge.There he met and shortly fell deeply in love with a fifteen year old choirboy by the name of John Edleston.About his "prot茅g茅" he wrote,"He has been my almost constant associate since October,1805,when I entered Trinity College.His voice first attracted my attention,his countenance fixed it,and his manners attached me to him for ever." Later,upon learning of his friend's death,he wrote,"I have heard of a death the other day that shocked me more than any,of one whom I loved more than any,of one whom I loved more than I ever loved a living thing,and one who,I believe,loved me to the last." In his memory Byron composed Thyrza,a series of elegies,in which he changed the pronouns from masculine to feminine so as not to offend sensibilities.
[Travels to the East]
From 1809 to 1811,Byron went on the Grand Tour then customary for a young nobleman.The Napoleonic Wars forced him to avoid most of Europe,and he instead turned to the Orient,which had fascinated him from a young age anyway.Correspondence among his circle of Cambridge friends also makes clear that a key motive was the hope of homosexual experience.He travelled from England over Spain to Albania and spent a lot of time there and in Athens.While in Athens he had a torrid love affair with Nicol貌 Giraud,a boy of fifteen or sixteen who taught him Italian.In gratitude for the boy's love Byron sent him to school at a monastery in Malta and bequeathed him seven thousand pounds sterling 鈥 almost double what he was later to spend refitting the Greek fleet.For most of the trip,he had a travelling companion in his friend John Cam Hobhouse.On this tour,the first two cantos of his epic poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage were written,though some of the more risqu茅 passages,such as those touching on pederasty,were suppressed before publication.[1]
[Beginning of poetic career]
Some early verses which he had published in 1806 were suppressed.He followed those in 1807 with Hours of Idleness,which the Edinburgh Review,a Whig periodical,savagely attacked.In reply,Byron sent forth English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809),which created considerable stir and shortly went through five editions.While some authors resented being satirized in its first edition,over time in subsequent editions it became a mark of prestige to be the target of Byron's pen.
After his return from his travels,the first two cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage were published in 1812,and were received with acclamation.In his own words,"I awoke one morning and found myself famous." He followed up his success with the poem's last two cantos,as well as four equally celebrated Oriental Tales,The Giaour,The Bride of Abydos,The Corsair,and Lara,which established the Byronic hero.About the same time began his intimacy with his future biographer,Thomas Moore.
[Political career]
Byron eventually took his seat at the House of Lords in 1811,shortly after his return from the Levant,and made his first speech there on 27 February 1812.A strong advocate of social reform,he received particular praise as one of the few Parliamentary defenders of the Luddites.He also spoke in defence of the rights of Roman Catholics.These experiences inspired Byron to write political poems such as "Song for the Luddites" (1816) and "The Landlords' Interest" (1823).Examples of poems where he attacked his political opponents include "Wellington:The Best of the Cut-Throats" (1819) and "The Intellectual Eunuch Castlereagh" (1818).
[Poetic works]
Byron wrote prolifically.[3] In 1833 his publisher,John Murray,released the complete works in 17 octavo volumes,including a life by Thomas Moore.His magnum opus,Don Juan,a poem spanning 17 cantos,ranks as one of the most important long poems published in England since Milton's Paradise Lost.Don Juan,Byron's masterpiece,often called the epic of its time,has roots deep in literary tradition and,although regarded by early Victorians as somewhat shocking,equally involves itself with its own contemporary world at all levels 鈥 social,political,literary and ideological.
Lord Byron (1803),as painted by Marie Louise Élisabeth Vig茅e-Lebrun.The Byronic hero pervades much of Byron's work.Scholars have traced the literary history of the Byronic hero from Milton,and many authors and artists of the Romantic movement show Byron's influence -- during the 19th century and beyond.The Byronic hero presents an idealised but flawed character whose attributes include:
having great talent
exhibiting great passion
having a distaste for society and social institutions
expressing a lack of respect for rank and privilege
thwarted in love by social constraint or death
rebelling
suffering exile
hiding an unsavoury past
ultimately,acting in a self-destructive manner