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George Gordon Byron was the son of Captain John Byron by his marriage to the Scottish Catherine Gordon of Gight. He was born with a club foot of which he was very self-conscious and educated in Aberdeen, where his family had moved to escape their debts, and at Harrow and Cambridge. Byron inherited the family home, Newstead Abbey, following the deaths of his father in 1791 and grandfather in 1798. He took up his seat in the House of Lords in 1808 and then left to travel in Europe, at which time he began writing his immensely popular poem Childe Harolde, returning to a political role again in 1813 when he spoke on liberal themes in the House. In 1815 he married Annabella Milbanke, but she left him soon afterwards, taking their child with her. Throughout his life he fathered several illegitimate children and had numerous scandalous affairs, the most notorious being with his half-sister Augusta, his father's daughter by an earlier marriage.
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Dr. Ratan Bhattacharjee (1/16/2010 6:34:00 PM)
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I often feel tempted to compare this poem with shakespeare's Dark Lady sonnets... Was the poem an appreciation of a dark woman?
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Claudia Krizay (8/23/2009 7:53:00 PM)
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Why is it that whenever someone writes a negative comment about a poem it is ordered to be deleted? As long as no foul language is used, I think that all comments-negative or positive should be allowed to be expressed- a writer needs to hear feedback whether it be negative or positive- that is my opinion! ! !
C Krizay
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