So, we'll go no more a roving Lord Byron

So, we'll go no more a roving

So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.

For the sword outwears its sheath,

And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest.

Though the night was made for loving,

And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a roving
By the light of the moon.

George Gordon Byron , 6th Baron Byron, (22 January 1788 19 April 1824),
commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an Anglo-Scottish poet and a leading
figure in the Romantic movement. Among his best-known works are the lengthy
narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric
poem "She Walks in Beauty".

Byron is regarded as one of the greatest British poets, and remains widely read
and influential. He travelled extensively across Europe, especially in Italy where he
lived for seven years. Later in life, Byron joined the Greek War of
Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire, for which many Greeks revere him as
a national hero. He died in 1824 at the young age of 36 from a fever contracted
while in Missolonghi (todays Greece). Often described as the most flamboyant and
notorious of the major Romantics, Byron was both celebrated and castigated in life
for his aristocratic excesses, including huge debts, numerous love affairs with
men as well as women, as well as rumours of a scandalous liaison with his half-
sister and self-imposed exile.

Romanticism

Romanticismwas an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that

originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at

its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. Romanticism was

characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification

of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than the classical. It was

partly a reaction to theIndustrial Revolution,the aristocratic social and political

norms of theAgeofEnlightenment, and the scientificrationalizationof nature. It was

embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature, but had a major

impact on historiography,education,and thenaturalsciences. It had a significant and

complex effect on politics, and while for much of the Romantic period it was

associated withliberalismandradicalism, its long-term effect on the growth

ofnationalismwas perhaps more significant.

The movement emphasized intense emotion as an authentic source

ofaestheticexperience, placing new emphasis on such emotions

asapprehension,horror and terror, andaweespecially that experienced in

confronting the new aesthetic categories of thesublimityand beauty of nature. It

consideredfolk artand ancient custom to be noble statuses, but also valued

spontaneity, as in the musicalimpromptu. In contrast to

therationalandClassicistideal models, Romanticism revivedmedievalismand

elements of art and narrative perceived as authentically medieval in an attempt to

escape population growth, earlyurbansprawl, andindustrialism.

Romanticism assigned a high value to the achievements of "heroic" individualists

and artists, whose examples, it maintained, would raise the quality of society. It

also promoted the individual imagination as a critical authority allowed of freedom

from classical notions of form in art.