his continual posing as the hero in his own verse mar the true poetic qualities ofmany ofhis longer works. Byron's poetry won great popularity both at home and abroad.Although today Shelley and Keats are given a highe place as poets,in their own time,they were largely unknown. while Byron was read all over Europe and was hailed as a champion of liberty.His works exerted a very powerful influence on the literature of France,Germany,Italy and Russia,and were translated into all European languages.He still remains one of the most influential Romantic poets to foreign readers. Byronic hero A theme that pervades much of Byron's work is that of the Byronic hero,an idealized but flawed character whose attributes include: 10 1)being a rebel:2)having a distaste for social institutions:3) being an exile;4)expressing a lack of respect for rank and privilege;5)having great talent;6)hiding an unsavoury past; 7)being highly passionate;8)ultimately,being self-destructive One of Byron's most popular works in his lifetime,the closet play Manfred,was loosely modeled on Goethe's anti-hero,his continual posing as the hero in his own verse mar the true poetic qualities of many of his longer works. Byron’s poetry won great popularity both at home and abroad. Although today Shelley and Keats are given a higher place as poets, in their own time, they were largely unknown, while Byron was read all over Europe and was hailed as a champion of liberty. His works exerted a very powerful influence on the literature of France, Germany, Italy and Russia, and were translated into all European languages. He still remains one of the most influential Romantic poets to foreign readers. Byronic hero A theme that pervades much of Byron's work is that of the Byronic hero, an idealized but flawed character whose attributes include: 1) being a rebel; 2) having a distaste for social institutions; 3) being an exile; 4) expressing a lack of respect for rank and privilege; 5) having great talent; 6) hiding an unsavoury past; 7) being highly passionate; 8) ultimately, being self-destructive One of Byron's most popular works in his lifetime, the closet play Manfred, was loosely modeled on Goethe's anti-hero, 10’