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First page from the 1816 collection The Prisoner of Chillon. "Darkness" is a poem written by Lord Byron in July 1816 on the theme of an apocalyptic end of the world which was published as part of the 1816 The Prisoner of Chillon collection.
First page of "A Fragment " 's first edition, in the Mazeppa collection (1819) "Fragment of Novel" is an unfinished 1819 vampire horror story written by Lord Byron.The story, also known as "A Fragment" and "The Burial: A Fragment", was one of the first in English to feature a vampire theme.
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.
Lord Byron was inspired to write the poem "Darkness" by a single day when "the fowls all went to roost at noon and candles had to be lit as at midnight". [45] The imagery in the poem is starkly similar to the conditions of the Year Without a Summer: [51]
The Greeks mourned Lord Byron deeply, and he became a hero. [104] [105] The national poet of Greece, Dionysios Solomos, wrote a poem about the unexpected loss, named To the Death of Lord Byron. [106] Βύρων, the Greek form of "Byron", continues in popularity as a masculine name in Greece, and a suburb of Athens is called Vyronas in his honour.
This pall of darkness inspires Byron to write his poem "Darkness" in July. Lord Byron separates from his wife and in April leaves England to tour continental Europe (never returning), settling in the summer in Switzerland, at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva; in late May he meets, and soon becomes friends with, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley ...
Byron was inspired to take on this subject when, on examining the portraits of the Doges in the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, he discovered that the portrait of Faliero had been blacked out. [1] The main historical source he drew on was Marino Sanuto 's Vite dei Dogi (published posthumously 1733).
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt is a long narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron.The poem was published between 1812 and 1818. Dedicated to "Ianthe", it describes the travels and reflections of a young man disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry and looking for distraction in foreign lands.