George Gordon Byron was born in London on January 22, 1788. His parents were Captain John "Mad Jack" Byron and Catherine Gordon. He was first educated at the Harrow School and then on to the University of Cambridge. In 1798, after the death of his great uncle William, the 5th Baron Byron, he took the title and the states that his uncle passed on to him. In 1808, Byron received a masters degree at Cambridge. In 1812, he received his first fame for his first two cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. In 1815, he married Anna Isabella Milbanke who gave birth to a daughter, Ada. In 1816, after his wife separated him and society had ostracized him, he left England for good. He traveled to Geneva, Venice and finally settled in Pisa. In 1822, he started the journal The Liberal with poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Leigh Hunt. By 1823, he had completed perhaps his greatest work in Don Juan. In 1823, on word of the Greek's revolt against Turkish rule, he joined the Greek insurance at Miss!
             olonghi. In January (1824), he was made commander in chief of their forces. Unfortunately, he became very sick and died three months later on April 19 in Missolonghi (Kanamori).
             Resulting in part from the libertarian and egalitarian ideals of the French Revolution, the romantic movements had in common only a revolt against the prescribed rules of classicism. The basic aims of romanticism were various: a return to nature and to belief in the goodness of humanity; the rediscovery of the artist as a supremely individual creator; the development of nationalistic pride; and the exaltation of the senses and emotions over reason and intellect. In addition, romanticism was a philosophical revolt against rationalism.
             Ranked with Shelley and Keats as one of the great Romantic poets, Byron became famous throughout Europe as the embodiment of romanticism. His good looks, his lameness, and his flamboyant lifestyle all contributed to the formation of the Byronic lege...