![]() ![]() ![]() As a whole, the collection was considered obscene, in part because it ridiculed specific teachers by name, and in part because it contained frank, erotic verses. ![]() ![]() The first, published anonymously and titled Fugitive Pieces, was printed in 1806 and contained a miscellany of poems, some of which were written when Byron was only fourteen. During this time Byron collected and published his first volumes of poetry. As a teenager, Byron discovered that he was attracted to men as well as women, which made him all the more remote and secretive.īyron studied at Aberdeen Grammar School and then Trinity College in Cambridge. Though he was the heir to an idyllic estate, the property was run down and his family had no assets with which to care for it. Abandoned by his father at an early age and resentful of his mother, whom he blamed for his being born with a deformed foot, Byron isolated himself during his youth and was deeply unhappy. He grew up in Aberdeen, Scotland, and inherited his family’s English title at the age of ten, becoming Baron Byron of Rochdale. George Gordon Byron was born on January 22, 1788, in London, England. ![]()
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