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The most colorful of the English romantic poets, Lord Byron embodied the romantic hero in his own quixotic lifestyle. Byron modeled the recurring hero in his poetry—the defiant young man dwelling upon a mysterious past—after himself. Byron died in 1824, soon after becoming commander in chief of the Greek forces during the struggle against the Ottoman Empire for independence. Byron’s epic masterpiece, Don Juan (1819-1824), satirizes English society in 16,000 lines. This excerpt is recited by an actor.
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