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Printable version; Page information; ... The poems and dramas of Lord Byron: Author: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 ... Version of PDF format: 1.5
The narrative poem recounts the story of the fateful return of Count Lara to his home after spending years abroad traveling the orient.One of Byron's footnotes explains that, even though the name "Lara" is of Spanish origin, "no circumstance of local or national description fix[es] the scene or hero of the poem to any country or age".
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Byron was a prolific writer, for whom "the composition of his great poem, Don Juan, was coextensive with a major part of his poetical life"; he wrote the first canto while resident in Italy in 1818, and the 17th canto in early 1823. [3] Canto I was written between July and September 1818, and canto II was written from December 1818 to January 1819.
The work's themes and images follow those of a typical poem by Lord Byron: the protagonist is an isolated figure, and brings a strong will to bear against great sufferings. He seeks solace in the beauty of nature (especially in sections ten and thirteen), and is a martyr of sorts to the cause of liberty.
The full title was Hours of Idleness; a Series of Poems Original and Translated, by George Gordon, Lord Byron, a Minor. It consisted of 187 pages with thirty-nine poems. Of these, nineteen came from the original Fugitive Pieces volume, while eight had first appeared in Poems on Various Occasions. Twelve were published for the first time.