ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Byron as a Romantic poet was engaged with the materialism of life as well as the interior exploration of poet’s own feelings or subjectivity. He was materialistic in a way that he is geographical, social and political centered poet who transcends these materialism into his own poetic experiences.

Detailed explanation-2: -Byron was a satirist, and his poetry is all clouded by satirical touches. He composed a few lyrics but his genius was more in satirical pieces and narrative verse than in fine effusions of poetry as presented by Shelley in his poetry. He was as aimed as a fighter of freedoms and an upholder of liberty.

Detailed explanation-3: -Byron’s first works were inspired by his cousin Margaret Parker and when she died he wrote “On the Death of a Young Lady.” Another one of Byron’s, who he fell in love with, is his cousin Mary Chaworth of Annesley Hall. She was the inspiration for works such as “Hills of Annesley” (1805) and “The Adieu” (1807).

Detailed explanation-4: -The most flamboyant and notorious of the major English Romantic poets, George Gordon, Lord Byron, was likewise the most fashionable poet of the early 1800s. He created an immensely popular Romantic hero-defiant, melancholy, haunted by secret guilt-for which, to many, he seemed the model.