So We'll Go No More a Roving
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Poet Lord Byron (George Gordon) 1788–1824
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Romantic
Subjects Relationships, Time & Brevity, Travels & Journeys, Activities, Separation & Divorce, Love, Disappointment & Failure, Living, Sorrow & Grieving, Romantic Love, Realistic & Complicated
Occasions Farewells & Good Luck
Poetic Terms Common Measure, Ballad
Biography
The most flamboyant and notorious of the major Romantics, George Gordon, Lord Byron, was likewise the most fashionable poet of the day. He created an immensely popular Romantic hero—defiant, melancholy, haunted by secret guilt—for which, to many, he seemed the model. He is also a Romantic paradox: a leader of the era’s poetic revolution, he named Alexander Pope as his master; a worshiper of the ideal, he never lost touch with . . .
Poems by Lord Byron (George Gordon)
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SUBJECT Relationships, Time & Brevity, Travels & Journeys, Activities, Separation & Divorce, Love, Disappointment & Failure, Living, Sorrow & Grieving, Romantic Love, Realistic & Complicated
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Romantic
Poetic Terms Common Measure, Ballad
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