The Waltz

By Lord Byron

"The Waltz" is a poem written and published by Lord Byron in October 1812. The poem describes the point of view of the London author on the Waltz, a particular type of dance.The waltz, in fact, was the most fashionable dance in London in the early 1800s ,and Lord Byron hated all types of dance. The text, therefore, is somewhat bizarre and satirical: it's a shameless criticism of the waltz and the ridiculous physicality of the waltz dancers. The text perfectly describes Lord Byron's hatred of dance in general.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Enrico Conti
• Release date: Sep 25, 2019
• ISBN: 9788834189740

Lord Byron

Lord Byron was an English poet and the most infamous of the English Romantics, glorified for his immoderate ways in both love and money. Benefitting from a privileged upbringing, Byron published the first two cantos of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage upon his return from his Grand Tour in 1811, and the poem was received with such acclaim that he became the focus of a public mania. Following the dissolution of his short-lived marriage in 1816, Byron left England amid rumours of infidelity, sodomy, and incest. In self-imposed exile in Italy Byron completed Childe Harold and Don Juan. He also took a great interest in Armenian culture, writing of the oppression of the Armenian people under Ottoman rule; and in 1823, he aided Greece in its quest for independence from Turkey by fitting out the Greek navy at his own expense. Two centuries of references to, and depictions of Byron in literature, music, and film began even before his death in 1824.

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THE WALTZ

Lord Byron

THE WALTZ

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Introduction to ‘The Waltz

Byron spent the autumn of 1812 by the waters of Cheltenham, and, besides writing to order his ‘Song of Drury Lane’ (the address spoken at the opening of the theatre, Oct. 10, 1812), he put in hand a ‘Satire on Waltzing’. It was published anonymously in the following spring; but, possibly, because it was somewhat coolly received, he told Murray (April 21, 1813) to contradict the report that he was the author of a certain malicious publication on waltzing. In his memoranda chiefly with reference to my Byron, Moore notes Byron’s hatred of waltzing,