1、George Gordon, Lord Byron 乔治戈登拜伦(1788-1824),A great poet,Contents,1,2,Life and Achievements,Major Poems and Comments,Life and Achievements,Byron,1788,1798,1801,1807,-born in London -his father fled to France so he lived with mother in loneiness and poverty,-inherited the title and the Byron estate,-
2、studied at Harrow-wrote a number of short poems,-entered Trinity College, Cambridge, -published Hours of Idleness 懒散的时光,Life and Achievements,Byron,1809,1815,-travelled to Spain, Portugal, Balkan Peninsula after graduation, influenced his subsequent work,-his two cantos of Childe Harold published“I
3、awoke one morning to find myself famous“,-got married, but his wife left him one year later, “he was insane” -Londoners rejected him from their social circle,1812,Life and Achievements,1816,1816- 1823,1823,lived in Italy, took part in the revolutionary work of the Carbonari(烧炭党),went ro Greece, devo
4、ted himself to struggling for liberation from Turkey,Byron,set sail to Europe, never came back In Switzerland, made friends with Shelley, wrote famous poemThe Prisoner of Chillon 锡雍的囚徒,Life and Achievements,-Byron died, May 19 -the Greek people loved him and gave his body full of military, -buried a
5、t Hucknall Torkard Church,1824,Major Poems,Childe Harolds Pilgrimage 恰尔德哈洛尔德游记,The Vision of Judgement审判的幻景,1816 and 1818,1813， The Giaour异教徒 1817， Manfred曼费雷德 1821，Cain该隐,The Prophecy of Dante但丁的预言,01,1819-1824,02,1822,Don Juan 唐璜,03,Comments,-His variety is as remarkable as his vivacity -not only
6、a great poet, but the kind of poet the world needs to inspire its loftier causes,His influence over contemporary European literature is overwhelming,Don Juan is a satiric poem. It was written in Byrons creative power.The action of the poem takes place in the latter quarter of the 18th century. Byron
7、 completed 16,000 lines long in 16 cantos, leaving an unfinished 17th canto before his death in 1824.,Introduction of Don Juan,Content of Don Juan,childhood,love affairs,abroad,Greek island,sold as a slave,capital of Turkey,in guise of a woman,camp of the Russian army,St. Petersburg,Empress Catherine,to England on a political mission,Comment from the Great,Pushkin had ever said “its diversity is as well as Shakespeares”.(像莎士比亚一样地包罗万象) Goethe described Don Juan as “the work of an absolute genius”. （绝顶天才之作）,Thank You!,
