Lord Byrons writtings
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Lord Byron once said:
"He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find
The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow;
He who surpasses or subdues mankind
Must look down on the hate of those below."1
Lord Byron was a writer, poet, and satirist whose works were as violent as his character. George Gordon Lord Byron was born in Holles Street, Cavendish Square, London, on January 22, 1788. Byron was tutored in Nottigham and later sent to a private school at Dulwich and then in 1801 to Harrow. In 1805 Lord Byron entered Trinity College, Cambridge. During his second year at Cambridge Byron put himself in debt for several thousand pounds. In 1809 Byron left Cambridge for a grand tour around Europe in order to escape the pressures of his creditors.
Byron returned to England in 1811 and brought with him a long autobiographic poem. It was published by John Murray under the name of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. However, the first under his name was the Hours of Idleness, a collection of juvenilla...