Lord Byron was one of the major Romantics and perhaps one of the earliest English celebrities, in the contemporary sense of the word. His poems deal with a wide array of topics including love, politics, war, religion, and world-weariness. The poems assigned in this Lesson Plan included Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I; several shorter poems from the Hebrew Melodies; The Prisoner of Chillon; "Prometheus," "Epistle to Augusta," and "Darkness"; excerpts from Don Juan, Canto I; The Vision of Judgement, and other short poems written over the course of Byron's life.
Byron worked masterfully across forms, modulating from the lofty-epic style of Childe Harold to the satirical epic Don Juan ...
