Lord Byron

Lord Byron

1. Birth

   • January 22nd 1788
   • Death
     • April 19th 1824
     • Father died when he was 3
       • John Byron ('Mad Jack')
         • Mother
           • Catherine Gordon
   • Birth

2. Romantic poet

   • 'became famous overnight'

3. Educated at Harrow school

   • Then Cambridge Unniversity

4. Influenced

   • William Wordsworth
   • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
   • Dante Alighieri
   • John Milton

5. Poems

   • Don Juan
   • Childe Harolds Pilgrimage
   • She walks in beauty
     • Most famous well known poem