Who was Lord Byron?
Byron, George Gordon, Lord was born in 1788. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement in the beginning of the of the 19th century, England. The beauty and brilliance of his writings hid the fame he received from his sexual escapades. After creating and producing an enormous amount of emotional literary works, Byron died in Greece while still pursuing his romantic adventures.
No poet has ever fascinated his contemporaries to the same extent as Byron. What his contemporaries called as “Byronomia” was ignited by his aristocratic glamour, his personal beauty, and his literary personal which mixed proud disdain with "terrifying" hints of guilty secrets.
He had beyond a massive influence on other writers in Europe and the Americas. His work on descriptive poetry and narrative was not only a major inspiration for writers, but also for musicians such as Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Schumann and painters as well.
What people didn’t understand in Byron’s century was that he was bisexual. During at minimum of three periods of his life, he had homosexuals interest that surpassed over his countless heterosexual involvements.
This side of Byron’s nature, however, did not become general knowledge among citizens until the publication of biographical studies by G. Wilson Knight and Leslie Marchand in 1957.
In 1798, George inherited the title of his great-uncle, William Byron, and was officially recognized and known as Lord Byron. Two years later, he attended Harrow School in London, where he experienced his first sexual encounters with males and females. He was inspired by his literary tradition and his own strong personal inclinations. He also wrote many poems about his feelings for men, such as in the Cornelian.
In September 1814, Byron proposed to Anne Isabella Milbanke . They got married in January 1815, and in December of that same year, they had a daughter Augusta Ada, better known as Ada Lovelace. However, by January their relationship was put to an end. Annabella left Byron because of the rumors of his relations with his half sister and of his bisexuality. After this he moved to England and he never saw his wife or daughter again.
No poet has ever fascinated his contemporaries to the same extent as Byron. What his contemporaries called as “Byronomia” was ignited by his aristocratic glamour, his personal beauty, and his literary personal which mixed proud disdain with "terrifying" hints of guilty secrets.
He had beyond a massive influence on other writers in Europe and the Americas. His work on descriptive poetry and narrative was not only a major inspiration for writers, but also for musicians such as Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Schumann and painters as well.
What people didn’t understand in Byron’s century was that he was bisexual. During at minimum of three periods of his life, he had homosexuals interest that surpassed over his countless heterosexual involvements.
This side of Byron’s nature, however, did not become general knowledge among citizens until the publication of biographical studies by G. Wilson Knight and Leslie Marchand in 1957.
In 1798, George inherited the title of his great-uncle, William Byron, and was officially recognized and known as Lord Byron. Two years later, he attended Harrow School in London, where he experienced his first sexual encounters with males and females. He was inspired by his literary tradition and his own strong personal inclinations. He also wrote many poems about his feelings for men, such as in the Cornelian.
In September 1814, Byron proposed to Anne Isabella Milbanke . They got married in January 1815, and in December of that same year, they had a daughter Augusta Ada, better known as Ada Lovelace. However, by January their relationship was put to an end. Annabella left Byron because of the rumors of his relations with his half sister and of his bisexuality. After this he moved to England and he never saw his wife or daughter again.
My opinion
Many people never knew that Lord Byron was bisexual because he was such a romantic with woman, this is what makes him so special. He was mostly known for his narrative skills and poems, but mainly all were about romanticism. Yet not all of his poems were about women, some were about his male companions. The difference with him and so many of the other artists I chose is that he hid his homosexuality from others. He always gave small hints that he was gay, but never really admitted it. In his poems, he gave his male lovers girl’s names which would make you think of a woman when reading the poem. Yet, people who like Lord Byron for all his excellent work that admired so many other artists might not have known that he was homosexual, but if they had, would his popularity have decreased by a large amount?