conservative Edinburgh Review.Two years later,Byron replied with a sharp satire called English Bards and Scottish Reviewers,which caused great shock in the upper class,and was compared to the roar ofa young lion. In 1809 Byron started a tour of Europe and the East.He chose an unconventional and highly romantic route.Instead of speaking Paris and classical Rome,he went through Portugal, Spain,the mediteranean.Turkey,Albania,Asia Minor.The result was his Childe Harolds Pilgrimage(1812),which was a great success and made him instantly popular at twenty-four, as he himself put it,"I awoke one morning to find myself famous.” In 1815 he married a young woman of noble family,who left him one year after,saying that no honest woman with a monster.The upper class and society,which had already begun to hate him,all believed his wife and turned against him.So he left England never to retur again.For the rest of his short life,he struck back at that which had stuck him and struck very effectively.He attacked all the conventions,all the hypocrisies,and all the moral commonplaces of English society. Unfortunately,he did not content himself with attackingconservative Edinburgh Review. Two years later, Byron replied with a sharp satire called English Bards and Scottish Reviewers, which caused great shock in the upper class, and was compared to the roar of a young lion. In 1809 Byron started a tour of Europe and the East. He chose an unconventional and highly romantic route. Instead of speaking Paris and classical Rome, he went through Portugal, Spain, the mediteranean. Turkey, Albania, Asia Minor. The result was his Childe Harolds Pilgrimage (1812), which was a great success and made him instantly popular at twenty-four, as he himself put it, “I awoke one morning to find myself famous.” In 1815 he married a young woman of noble family, who left him one year after, saying that no honest woman could live with a monster. The upper class and society, which had already begun to hate him, all believed his wife and turned against him. So he left England never to return again. For the rest of his short life, he struck back at that which had stuck him and struck very effectively. He attacked all the conventions, all the hypocrisies, and all the moral commonplaces of English society. Unfortunately, he did not content himself with attacking