33 Questions
What was Lord Byron primarily known for during his lifetime?
His autobiographical poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
How did Lord Byron's appearance influence his life?
It made him sensitive about his appearance throughout his life
What was one unconventional aspect of Lord Byron?
He frequently traveled and had a pet bear
How did Lord Byron contribute to the Greeks' struggle for independence?
By taking command of a brigade of Souliot soldiers
What was the probable cause of Lord Byron's death?
Bloodletting as a treatment for a fever
Where was Lord Byron born?
London, England
In which autobiographical poem is Lord Byron referred to as the 'gloomy egoist'?
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Where did Lord Byron develop an extreme sensitivity to his lameness?
Aberdeen, Scotland
What was the title of Lord Byron's first published volume of poetry?
Hours of Idleness
Where did Lord Byron embark on a grand tour with John Cam Hobhouse?
Spain
What is the central theme of the first two cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage?
The disillusionment and melancholy of a young man
What scandal was barely prevented by Byron's friend Hobhouse?
An elopement with Lady Caroline Lamb
Where did Byron move to in September after Shelley's drowning?
Genoa
Which publication by Byron sold 10,000 copies on the day of its release?
The Giaour
What sentiment does Byron express in his Oriental verse tales like The Corsair and Lara?
Guilt and exultation
To whom did Byron give his later work, including cantos VI to XVI of Don Juan?
Leigh Hunt
Which event led to the legal separation between Byron and Lady Byron?
Rumors about Byron's bisexuality
What epidemic did Byron contract in April 1824 in Missolonghi?
Malaria
What did Byron become to the Greeks after his death?
A disinterested patriot
Where was Byron finally memorialized 145 years after his death?
Westminster Abbey
When did Byron complete 16 cantos of Don Juan?
After arriving in Pisa in November 1821
What was the reason behind Byron transforming Don Juan into an innocent young man?
To portray a rational norm for society
Where did Byron rent a villa in early summer of 1822?
Leghorn
What role did Countess Teresa Gamba Guiccioli play in Byron's life?
She was his mistress
What did Byron's satire 'The Vision of Judgment' parody?
A eulogy of King George III by Robert Southey
According to Walter Scott in 1824, what aspects of human life did Lord Byron's writing encompass in Don Juan?
Every topic of human life
What did Walter Scott say about the nature of Lord Byron's writing in Don Juan?
It was wholly new and relative to the age
How did Goethe describe Lord Byron's writing in Don Juan?
'A work of bondless genius'
What aspect of Lord Byron's writing did Algernon Charles Swinburne praise regarding Don Juan?
Its narrative strength and thematic range
Why did Walter Scott consider Lord Byron's writing in Don Juan surpassingly beautiful?
For its transcendence into new and beautiful realms
What distinguished Tatiana Gnedich's translation of Don Juan into Russian during her imprisonment?
'She had it published in 1959'
'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 ____________.
Dynamic and engaging characteristics of Byron's verse
Why did Walter Scott emphasize that Lord Byron's writing in Don Juan is both wholly new and relative to the age?
To highlight the timeless quality of Byron's work
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