Lord Byron Playing The Bacchant by CF O'Lochlainn

Lord Byron Playing The Bacchant by Flaibhean O’Lochlainn “Fair Greece! sad relic of departed world! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great! Who now shall lead thy scatter’d children forth, And long accustom’d bondage uncreate?” “Childe... More

Lord Byron Playing The Bacchant by Flaibhean O’Lochlainn “Fair Greece! sad relic of departed world! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great! Who now shall lead thy scatter’d children forth, And long accustom’d bondage uncreate?” “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” Lord Byron Prelude The heroic ideal was first expressed to the literary world through the Homeric epics which have evoked endless emotions of exile, war, and tragic betrayal for over two and a half millennia. The early nineteenth century gave birth to the Romantics where literature met with a new bard, Lord Byron, poet and statesman of noble and heroic ideals. The strength of his ideal was a creed of action that bound the passions of intellect and reason into a notion of nationhood sprung from ancient classical sentiment. Byron amassed mountain chieftains under the leadership of Greek patriots to re-incarnate the spirit of Hellas for its bloodsoaked revolution that attached the triumph of freedom to the Less