ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -One of the most common comparisons is with Percy Bysshe Shelley, his friend. Shelley and Byron had much in common. Shelley married Mary, while Byron engaged in an affair with Mary’s stepsister Claire Clairmont (who was also Shelley’s former lover).

Detailed explanation-2: -Byron continued to be close to Percy, who often visited him until Shelley died in 1822. Claire had Byron’s child shortly after the 1816 polycule split up and named her Alba. Byron asked for the child to be sent to him, and Claire, penniless and hoping for better for the baby, agreed.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thomas Medwin (20 March 1788 –2 August 1869) was an early 19th-century English writer, poet and translator. He is known chiefly for his biography of his cousin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and for published recollections of his friend, Lord Byron.

Detailed explanation-4: -Byron, Shelley and Keats were the members of the second generation of Romantic poets, they blossomed (fiorire) early and both of them died very young, all far from England. Shelley was expelled by the university and he had to leave England, because he was revolutionary, he was against everything.