ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lord Byron was a British Romantic poet and satirist whose poetry and personality captured the imagination of Europe. Although made famous by the autobiographical poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812–18)-and his many love affairs-he is perhaps better known today for the satiric realism of Don Juan (1819–24).

Detailed explanation-3: -As famous for his scandalous private life as for his work, Byron was born on 22nd January 1788 in London and inherited the title Baron Byron from his great uncle at the age of 10. He endured a chaotic childhood in Aberdeen, brought up by his schizophrenic mother and an abusive nurse.