Conceived on January 22, 1788, George Gordon Byron was the 6th Baron Byron of an aristocratic family. Born with clubfoot, Lord Byron was left him self-conscious most of his life. As a kid, George's upbringing was lived through a father who left him, and a schizophrenic mother. In 1798, at age 10, George acquired the title of his great-uncle, William Byron, and was officially recognized as Lord Byron. After two years, he went to Harrow School in London, where he experienced his first sexual encounters with males and females. In 1803, Byron fell deeply enamored with his cousin, Mary Chaworth, and this unrequited enthusiasm discovered articulation in a few lyrics, including Hills of Annesley and The Adieu.
From 1805 to 1808, Byron went to Trinity
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The brutal and frightening pictures of nature summoned by Romantic artists review the eighteenth-century stylish of the Sublime. As explained by the British statesman Edmund Burke in a 1757 treatise and reverberated by the French logician Denis Diderot 10 years later, “all that stuns the soul, all that imprints a feeling of terror, leads to the sublime.” In French and British painting of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, shipwrecks and other representations of man’s struggle against nature show this sensibility. Scenes of shipwrecks culminated in 1819 with Théodore Gericault's unique Raft of the Medusa, based on the contemporary event. In its astonishing unequivocality, passionate intensity, and prominent absence of a hero, The Raft of the Medusa turned into a symbol of the rising Romantic style. Similarly, J. M. W. Turner's 1812 delineation of Hannibal and his army crossing the Alps, in which the general and his troops are overshadowed by the enormous size of the scene and overwhelmed in the whirling vortex of snow, epitomizes the Romantic sensibility in scene …show more content…
Composers turned their attention to the expression of intense feelings within their pieces. Romantic music is identified with romanticism in literature, visual arts, and mythology, however the traditional eras utilized as a part of musicology are altogether different from their partners in alternate expressions, which characterize "sentimental" as running from the 1780s to the 1840s. The Romanticism movement held that not all fact could be reasoned from maxims, that there were inevitable substances on the planet which must be come to through feeling, feeling and instinct. Romantic music attempted to increment passionate expressions and energy to depict these more profound facts, while saving or broadening the formal structures from the traditional