1. Lord Byron and English Literature
Later, in 1815 Byron married Annabella Millbank with whom he had a daughter but after a year they separated because of Byron's alleged incest with his half-sister, causing a scandal that forced Byron to leave England for Europe (Slovey and Haerens 67). ... Throughout his poetry he expresses his weaknesses and sexual sin; Byron suffers from self-guilt, self-hatred and banishment because of his incestual affair (Knight 208). ... It is frequently argued that Byron's "deep sense of the will's ineffectuality led him not only to his theme of the trapped man but also away from a d...
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