Byron Flashcards

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What does so well go no more a roving allude to?

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Ballard tradition from Scottish Folk ballad ‘the jolly beggar’ or the ‘maid of Amsterdam’ changes extended narratives and highlights aging and renunciation

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Did Byron consider himself a romantic?

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No called Wordsworth turnouts and Keats ‘piss a bed poetry’ and likened himself to earlier satirists like Alexander apooe

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When was so we’ll go no more a roving published?

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1830, six years after Byron’s death by Thomas Moore

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Was Byron popular?

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He ranked among the most famous people during early 1800s. His wife Annabelle coined the word Byromania to describe the hype that swelled around him

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Describe Byron’s life

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Scandalous. He was known for love affairs and a volatile personality. He was bisexual and accused of an infectuestous romance with his half sister. One of his lovers Lady Caroline Lamb called him ‘mad bad and dangerous to know’

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What was the Byronic hero?

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Archetype of proud brooding volatile passionate and rebellious

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What was on this day I complete my thirsty sixth year describing?

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Byron went to war at age 36 fighting for Green independence (1821-1830) against the Ottomin Empire and died their

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