truck in announcing himself as Lord Byron” (The PenguinGroup, 1). Then he took his seat in the house of lords that same year, and then departedon a grand tour through most of Europe, there he began “Chilled Harold’s Pilgrimage.”“Byron returned to London in July 1811, but too late to see his mother, before shedied”(The Penguin Group, 2). “After having returned from exotic travels, he became afigure of force and he followed his success with a series of “Eastern” tales that added tohis aura: one of them, The Corsair 1814, written in ten days, sold ten thousand copies onthe day of publication”(The Penguin Group, 2). Hebrew Melodies 1815, contains one of Byron’s most famous lyrics, which is “ She Walks in Beauty”. After having a relationshipwith his half-sister Augusta, and presuming that her daughter Medora was his, Byronproposed to Annabella Milbanke. “They married in January 1815; their daughter AugustaAda was born at the end of the year, but a few weeks latter Annabella left Byron to livewith her parents, amid rumors of insanity, incest, and sodomy”(The Penguin Group, 3).“In 1819 the first two cantos of Don Juan were published in an expensive edition meant toforestall charges of blasphemy and bearing neither the authors nor the publisher’s name”(The Penguin Group, 3). In April 1819, Byron met his last attachment Teresa Gamba Guiccioli who wasmarried to a man three times her age. When Teresa’s father and brother were exiled, shefollowed them. Byron, then went with her to Pisa. “A serious illness in February 1824,weakened Byron; in April he contracted a fever, treated by further bleeding, from whichhe died on April 19 at the age of thirty-six”(The Penguin Group, 4). She Walks In Beauty1 She walks in beauty , like the night Of cloudless cli...
