. Home school of American literature: . c reply which Byron published in the poetical satire called EnglishBards and Scotch Reviewers. Although he was, some years later, in a certainway, very popular, he was never again really on good terms with his fellows. Hetraveled abroad, and on his return to England published the first two cantos of Childe Harold. It is difficult now to understand the fact, but the poem imme-diately achieved an unheard-of degree of popularity. Byron tells the wholestory in a note in his diary: I awoke one morning and found myself the four following years he wro
. Home school of American literature: . c reply which Byron published in the poetical satire called EnglishBards and Scotch Reviewers. Although he was, some years later, in a certainway, very popular, he was never again really on good terms with his fellows. Hetraveled abroad, and on his return to England published the first two cantos of Childe Harold. It is difficult now to understand the fact, but the poem imme-diately achieved an unheard-of degree of popularity. Byron tells the wholestory in a note in his diary: I awoke one morning and found myself the four following years he wrote a number of poems, The Giaour, TheBride of Abydos, The Corsair, Lara, The Siege of Corinth, and marriage to Miss Milbank resulted in a separation after a single year, andwhen his wifes family discarded him he was no longer received in Englishsociety, and almost immediately went abroad. He lived, an embittered man, inSwitzerland and in different Italian cities, a life of vice and profligacy too disgust-ing to relate. 583. THE GREAT POETS OF ENGLAND GEORGE GORDON BYRON. 583 In 1823 he took up the cause of the Greeks, then rebelling against theirTurkish masters. It is usually thought of as a generous effort on behalf of humanfreedom, which should to some extent atone for the selfish wickedness of his is reason, however, to believe that he hoped to reap a reward in beingmade king of the Greeks, and thus enabled to exult over his enemies and criticsin England. He was seized with a fever, and died, in April, 1824, in his thirty-seventh year. His best known works, besides those mentioned, are ThePrisoner of Chillon, Manfred, Mazeppa, Sardanapalus, Cain, and theunfinished long poem, Don Juan, in which he embodied his spirit of revoltagainst all the laws of social morality and religion. ■^,*t THE LAND OF THE EAST. From The Bride of Abydos. NOW ye the land where the cypress andmyrtleAre emblems of deeds that are done intheir clime,Where the rage of the vultur
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