She Walks in Beauty - Summary
About the poet Lord Byron Lord Byron (1788-1824) was a tremendously popular poet of the Romantic period. Yet this popularity changed into notoriety because of his defiance of social norms. As a result, he left England in 1816 never returning. He participated in the Greek War of Independence, thus proving his concern for liberty, a concern generally associated with the Romantics. He shares a concern for other aspects of Romanticism such as a feeling for nature and the concept of love and beauty. He is notable for the skillful use of varied stanza forms like the heroic couplet, the Spenserian stanza, and the ottava rima. 'She Walks in Beauty, expresses Byron's typically Romantic concepts of love and beauty. This is one of his best lyrics. The concept of beauty expounded in the poem goes beyond the physical. It is the beauty of the heart. The poem is not a conventional love poem but presents a vision of the perfect woman. Summary The poem is one of the best lyrics written by Lord ...
