![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Byron never forgot the reception given to his first acknowledged volume of poetry and in 1809 anonymously took revenge on the anonymous Edinburgh reviewer in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, in which he showed himself to be an able satirist in the manner of Pope, of whom he was always a strong admirer. ![]() Hours of Idleness was unfavorably reviewed by the influential Edinburgh Review in 1807. Poems was republished as Hours of Idleness the following year, with Byron's name on the title page. A selection of poems from Fugitive Pieces and other juvenilia were published as Poems on Various Occasions. degree from Cambridge in 1808.īyron's first volume of poems, Fugitive Pieces, was privately printed in 1806. From Harrow he went to Trinity College, Cambridge. On the death of his granduncle, William, Lord Byron, the poet inherited the family title and estate.īyron attended a number of schools, including the famous public school, Harrow, where he made many friends. As a result, Lord Byron was born a Gordon and not a Byron. On the insistence of the Gordon family, John Byron legally changed his name to John Gordon. George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron, was born in London on January 22, 1788, the only son of Captain John Byron and his second wife, the heiress Catherine Gordon. ![]()
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