Selected Poems of Lord Byron (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Arnold, Matthew

9781330062777: Selected Poems of Lord Byron (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1330062779 ISBN 13: 9781330062777

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Excerpt from Selected Poems of Lord Byron

On his mother's side he was descended from James I. Through his daughter Annabella, married to the second Earl of Huntley.

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Excerpt from Selected Poems of Lord Byron

Returning to London, he seduced the Marchioness of Carmarthen, Lady Conyers, whom after her divorce he married, and treated brutally, though, by her death, he lost her income of �4,000 a year. She died in 1784, leaving a daughter, Augusta, who was an important factor in the poet's life.

Two years later he married Catherine Gordon of Gight, near Aberdeen, who had about �23,000 in her own right. She is described as "a dumpy young woman, with a large waist, florid complexion, and homely features," lacking even a common education, and subject to "frequent fits of uncontrollable fury." Her father had committed suicide.

Captain Byron quickly ran through all but �3,000 of her small property, and three years after his son's birth he begged a guinea from her and fled to France, where he died, possibly by suicide, at Valenciennes, August, 1791. Though Mrs. Byron had found it impossible to live with him, it is said that when she heard of his death she disturbed the neighborhood with her shrieks. Byron claimed to have remembered his father, who, when living apart from his wife, used to waylay the child and play with him, and once took him home to his lodgings for the night. He idealized the memory of his sire in a few pathetic lines in Lara.

Byron's childhood was spent in Aberdeen. Perhaps fortunate in being out of the influence of "Mad Jack," he was doubly unfortunate in his mother's management. Caresses of passionate violence often alternated with fierce blows.

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