Byron and The Liberal Periodical
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Byron and The Liberal Periodical

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What was Lord Byron primarily known for during his lifetime?

  • His satiric realism in Don Juan
  • His unconventional lifestyle and numerous love affairs
  • His autobiographical poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (correct)
  • His role in aiding the Greeks' struggle for independence

    • How did Lord Byron's appearance influence his life?

  • It motivated him to travel frequently
  • It inspired him to join the military
  • It led to his involvement in numerous love affairs
  • It made him sensitive about his appearance throughout his life (correct)

    • What was one unconventional aspect of Lord Byron?

  • He had a pet tiger
  • He was an expert swordsman
  • He frequently traveled and had a pet bear (correct)
  • He was a skilled painter

    • How did Lord Byron contribute to the Greeks' struggle for independence?

    <p>By taking command of a brigade of Souliot soldiers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the probable cause of Lord Byron's death?

    <p>Bloodletting as a treatment for a fever</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Where was Lord Byron born?

    <p>London, England</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In which autobiographical poem is Lord Byron referred to as the 'gloomy egoist'?

    <p>Childe Harold's Pilgrimage</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Where did Lord Byron develop an extreme sensitivity to his lameness?

    <p>Aberdeen, Scotland</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the title of Lord Byron's first published volume of poetry?

    <p>Hours of Idleness</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Where did Lord Byron embark on a grand tour with John Cam Hobhouse?

    <p>Spain</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the central theme of the first two cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage?

    <p>The disillusionment and melancholy of a young man</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What scandal was barely prevented by Byron's friend Hobhouse?

    <p>An elopement with Lady Caroline Lamb</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Where did Byron move to in September after Shelley's drowning?

    <p>Genoa</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which publication by Byron sold 10,000 copies on the day of its release?

    <p>The Giaour</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What sentiment does Byron express in his Oriental verse tales like The Corsair and Lara?

    <p>Guilt and exultation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    To whom did Byron give his later work, including cantos VI to XVI of Don Juan?

    <p>Leigh Hunt</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which event led to the legal separation between Byron and Lady Byron?

    <p>Rumors about Byron's bisexuality</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What epidemic did Byron contract in April 1824 in Missolonghi?

    <p>Malaria</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Byron become to the Greeks after his death?

    <p>A disinterested patriot</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Where was Byron finally memorialized 145 years after his death?

    <p>Westminster Abbey</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When did Byron complete 16 cantos of Don Juan?

    <p>After arriving in Pisa in November 1821</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the reason behind Byron transforming Don Juan into an innocent young man?

    <p>To portray a rational norm for society</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Where did Byron rent a villa in early summer of 1822?

    <p>Leghorn</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What role did Countess Teresa Gamba Guiccioli play in Byron's life?

    <p>She was his mistress</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Byron's satire 'The Vision of Judgment' parody?

    <p>A eulogy of King George III by Robert Southey</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to Walter Scott in 1824, what aspects of human life did Lord Byron's writing encompass in Don Juan?

    <p>Every topic of human life</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Walter Scott say about the nature of Lord Byron's writing in Don Juan?

    <p>It was wholly new and relative to the age</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How did Goethe describe Lord Byron's writing in Don Juan?

    <p>'A work of bondless genius'</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What aspect of Lord Byron's writing did Algernon Charles Swinburne praise regarding Don Juan?

    <p>Its narrative strength and thematic range</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why did Walter Scott consider Lord Byron's writing in Don Juan surpassingly beautiful?

    <p>For its transcendence into new and beautiful realms</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What distinguished Tatiana Gnedich's translation of Don Juan into Russian during her imprisonment?

    <p>'She had it published in 1959'</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'Across the stanzas...we swim forward as over the ‘broad backs of the sea’; they break and glitter, hiss and laugh, murmur and move like waves that sound or that subside.' This imagery is used to describe the ____________.

    <p>Dynamic and engaging characteristics of Byron's verse</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why did Walter Scott emphasize that Lord Byron's writing in Don Juan is both wholly new and relative to the age?

    <p>To highlight the timeless quality of Byron's work</p> Signup and view all the answers

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