My soul is gloomy... Byron J.G.

"... His wit and poetry is so bright that everything that is in his nature is lost in their splendor. They even contradict him, for they prove that the strength and beauty of human nature are able to defeat everything that is apparently incompatible with them, ”wrote Persia Shelley about the work of the great English romantic poet J. G. Byron.

The rebellious, freedom -loving spirit of his poetry had a huge impact on world literature and became a source of inspiration for many Russian poets who translated the works of Lord Byron. Love and death, spiritual freedom and gloomy egoism, the music of the verse, striking with its sincerity and diversity, merged in his poems into a single harmony.

In the collection “My soul is gloomy...” Chosen poems are presented in translations of m..