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Lord Byron, George Gordon
Lord Byron, George Gordon, is revered as one of the best romantic poets of all time. Not only did Byron write poetry, but he also wrote many famous satires that struck the imagination of many of his readers throughout Europe. Byron had many experiences and trials in his life that sculpted his poetry and other writings.
Byron was born in London on January 22, 1788 in a caul, which is a membranous sack, which was removed and caused no harm to Byron. There was, however; one physical illness that caused Byron problems for the rest of his life. Byron was born with clubfoot, which is a withering of a calf muscle causing a deformity in his right foot (Raphael 11). Byron was extremely sensitive about his clubfoot for most of his life and his mother sent him to many quacks to try to correct the problem so that her son could lead a normal life.
A big inspiration for many of Byron's early love poems was his cousin Mary Duff who he was deeply in love with and who also served as a symbol of unattainable love. Yet, at the same time, one of Byron's servant girls, May Gray, also helped shape much of Byron's works. May Gray was the first to introduce Byron to many intimate things in life, and one of the few to give much attention to the lame yet handsome Byron.
When Byron was ten years old, his uncle, "the wicked" Lord Byron, was killed in the siege of Calvi. Byron left with his mother and May Gray to inherit the estate of his uncle, Newstead Abbey, on the edge of Sherwood Forest. Byron got to the estate to find out that it had been stripped of most of its belongings because his uncle had owed much money to creditors in the area. It was so bad that the furniture inside the place and even the roof had been taken as the creditors stripped anything of value from the estate that Byron's uncle had not first stripped.
While there, Byron got to know John Hanson who was, at the time, Mrs. Byron's attorney....
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