George Gordon,
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
outstanding British poet; sixth baron, son of Captain John Byron and his
second wife Catherine Gordon of Gight.
The
Death of Sardanapalus, is a poetic drama about a hedonistic Assyrian
king Sardanapalus who ordered all of his prized possessions destroyed with
him on his funeral pyre.
See: Eugène Delacroix The
Death of Sardanapalus.
Don Juan, is an epic satire. A young Spanish nobleman Don Juan
had to leave his native Seville, because of a love scandal. He launched
into long adventures, which started rather unpleasantly, with a shipwreck.
See: Eugène Delacroix The
Shipwreck of Don Juan.
The Bride of Abydos is a poem (1813). Pasha Giaffir plans
to marry his beautiful daughter Zudeika to his ally, rich, but old, Bey
of Garasman. The girl asks her brother Selim to save her from this marriage,
and he takes her to his hiding place, where he reveals himself as her cousin
and a pirate. Selim asks Zuleika to share his life, she falls in love with
him and agrees; but her father and his soldiers find them and Selim is
killed, Zuleika dies of grief.
See: Eugène Delacroix The
Bride of Abydos.