Lord Byron

Question 1

Byron’s year of birth?

Answer 1

b.1788 - d.1824

Question 2

What is the title of Byron’s autobiographical poem?

Answer 2

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Canto I and II in 1812, Canto III in 1816 and Canto IV in 1818).

Question 3

Which are the places mentioned in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage?

Answer 3

Canto I and II: Portugal, Spain, the Ionian Islands, and Albania and Greece.
Canto III: Belgium, the Rhine Valley, the Alps, and the Jura
Canto IV: Venice, Ferrara, Florence, and Rome

Question 4

When was Don Juan published?

Answer 4

The 16 cantos were written between 1819 and 1824. 17th canto was left unfinished.

Question 5

Byron’s first book of poems?

Answer 5

Fugitive Pieces (1806) (privately published)

Question 6

Byron’s first published book of poetry?

Answer 6

Hours of Idleness (1807)

Question 7

What was the motivation to write English bards and Scotch Reviewers in 1809?

Answer 7

A sarcastic critique of his book Hours of Idleness in the The Edinburgh Review.

Question 8

Name some oriental verse tales written by Byron.

Answer 8

The Giaour (1813)
The Bride of Abydos (1813)
The Corsair (1814) - sold 10000 copies on the day of publication. 
Lara (1814)

Question 9

Which drama has the lines “half dust, half deity, alike unfit to sink or soar?”

Answer 9

Manfred: A Dramatic Poem (1817)

Question 10

What is Beppo about?

Answer 10

Satirical poem in ottava rima that compares Italian and English manners.

Question 11

What is Byron’s satire on Robert Southey called?

Answer 11

The Vision of Judgment (1822).

Question 12

A journal that was edited by Byron, Shelley and Leigh Hunt?

Answer 12

The Liberal. This first issue of this journal contained Byron’s The Vision of Judgment.

Question 13

Who wrote a piano score titled Manfred Meditations, inspired by Byron’s Manfred?

Answer 13

Friedrich Nietzsche (1872)

Question 14

Manfred was musically adapted later by?

Answer 14

Robert Schumann (1852) and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1885)

Question 15

When was Mazeppa written?

Answer 15

A narrative poem written in 1819, based on the popular legend of the early life of Ivan Mazepa, a Ukrainian military leader.

Question 16

What other pieces where published along with Mazeppa?

Answer 16

“Fragment of a Novel’, one of the first Vampire stories in English, written during the Frankenstein challenge. It was inspired by Polidori’s Vampyre, written at the same time.

Question 17

What is Hints from Horace?

Answer 17

A sequel to English Bards and Scottish Reviewers, it satirized contemporary poetry and drama, and praised Dryden, Pope, Swift and Butler.