ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Hours of Idleness, first collection of poems by Lord Byron, published in 1807 when he was 19 years old. The poems are generally regarded as commonplace at best. The date of each poem’s composition was noted in the book.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hours of Idleness was the first volume of poetry published by Lord Byron, in 1807, when he was 19 years old.

Detailed explanation-3: -In March 1809, two months after attaining his majority, he took his seat in the House of Lords. Shortly thereafter, Byron’s first major poetic work, English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers. A Satire, was published anonymously in an edition of 1, 000 copies.

Detailed explanation-4: -By 1816, Byron was afraid for his life, warned that a crowd might lynch him if he were seen in public. Forced to flee England, Byron settled in Italy and began writing his masterpiece, Don Juan, an epic-satire novel-in-verse loosely based on a legendary hero.

Detailed explanation-5: -Lord Byron uses the theme of life and death frequently in many of his poems to show the importance of these themes in the Romantic Era. The meaning of life in Byron’s work is based on how he views his own life, and depicts it as light.