![]() ![]() Next year he took his seat in the House of Lords, and set out on his grand tour, visiting Spain, Malta, Albania, Greece, and the Aegean. The poet answered his critics with the satire English Bards And Scotch Reviewersin 1808. In 1807 Byron's first collection of poetry, Hours Of Idleness appeared. Staying at Newstead in 1802, he probably first met his half-sister, Augusta Leigh with whom he was later suspected of having an incestuous relationship. ![]() After he inherited the title and property of his great-uncle in 1798, he went on to Dulwich, Harrow, and Cambridge, where he piled up debts and aroused alarm with bisexual love affairs. Byron spent his early childhood years in poor surroundings in Aberdeen, where he was educated until he was ten. He was born with a club-foot and became extreme sensitivity about his lameness. George Gordon, Lord Byron, was the son of Captain John Byron, and Catherine Gordon. Byron's influence on European poetry, music, novel, opera, and painting has been immense, although the poet was widely condemned on moral grounds by his contemporaries. He created the concept of the 'Byronic hero' - a defiant, melancholy young man, brooding on some mysterious, unforgivable event in his past. Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) was as famous in his lifetime for his personality cult as for his poetry. ![]()
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