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LIFE & WORKS: Early Years Tour Early Fame Marriage & Exile Revolutionary & Martyr
Byron and Newstead Abbey
Byron's Life and Works: Grand Tour
In July 1809 Byron sailed from Falmouth on the first leg of a two-year journey
which took him through Portugal and Spain to Malta, Albania, Greece and
Constantinople. Along the way he wrote a long poem based on his experiences.
Its hero, a proud and melancholy young nobleman named Childe Harold, is
troubled by a dark secret and seeks forgetfulness in travel through foreign
lands.
During his tour of the Mediterranean, Byron had many adventures which provided subjects for his poetry. In Albania he was an honoured guest of Ali Pasha, and in Constantinople he had an audience with the Sultan. The poet settled for some months in Athens and became sympathetic to the Greek struggle for independence from Turkish rule.
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