Contents
- The Text of the Poems
- A Note on the Texts
- From Hours of Idleness (1807)
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- To M.S.G.
- To a Beautiful Quaker
- To a Lady Who Presented to the Author a Lock of Hair Braided with His Own, and Appointed at a Night in December to Meet Him in the Garden
- On a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill, 1806
- I Would I Were a Careless Child
- To Edward Noel Long, Esq.
- From Hebrew Melodies (1815)
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- She Walks in Beauty
- The Harp the Monarch Minstrel Swept
- My Soul Is Dark
- The Destruction of Sennacherib
- Other Lyrics
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- Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos
- To Thyrza
- Epistle to Augusta
- Darkness
- So We’ll Go No More A-Roving
- Versicles
- On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Six Year
- Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
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- Canto the First (1812)
- Canto the Third (1816)
- Canto the Fourth (verses 1-10, 164-86) (1818)
- The Giaour (1812)
- The Prisoner of Chillon (1816)
- Manfred (1817)
- The Vision of Judgment (1822)
- Don Juan (1819–24)
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- Fragment on the Back of the Ms. of Canto the First
- Dedication
- Canto the First
- Canto the Second (verses CXLI-CCXVI)
- Canto the Fifth
- Canto the Ninth
- Canto the Sixteenth
- Byron’s Letter and Journals
- To His Mother, May 1, 1803
- To Francis Hodgson, November 3, 1808
- To William Harness, March 18, 1809
- To Henry Drury, May 3, 1810
- To Francis Hodgson, September 3, 1811
- To John Murray, September 5, 1811
- To Lady Caroline Lamb, May 1, 1812
- From His Journal, November 1813–April 1814
- To Lady Melbourne, January 7, 1815
- To Lady Byron, February 8, 1816
- To John Murray, September 15, 1817
- To Thomas Moore, February 2, 1818
- To John Cam Hobhouse and the Honorable Douglas Kinnaird, January 19, 1819
- To the Honorable Douglas Kinnaird, October 26, 1819
- From His "Detached Thoughts," October 1821 to May 1822
- To the Honorable Augusta Leigh, September 12, 1823
- To Mr. Mayer, English Consul at Prevesa, undated
- Criticism
- Bergen Evans, Lord Byron’s Pilgrimage
- John D. Jump, Byron: The Historical Context
- Michael G. Cooke, Byron and the Romantic Lyric
- Francis Berry, The Poet of Childe Harold
- Robert F. Gleckner, The Giaour as Experimental Narrative
- James R. Thompson, Byron’s Plays and Don Juan
- Frank D. McConnell, Byron as Antipoet
- Leslie A. Marchand, Byron in the Twentieth Century
- E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Byron and the Terrestrial Paradise
- Images of Byron
- Francis Jeffrey, From the Edinburgh Review (April 1814)
- Lady Caroline Lamb, From Glenarvon (1816)
- Thomas Love Peacock, From Nightmare Abbey (1818)
- Robert Southey, From A Vision of Judgment (1821)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, From Conversations with Eckermann (1822–1832)
- Stendhal, Memories of Lord Byron (1829)
- Thomas Carlyle, From Sartor Resartus (1838)
- Gustave Flaubert, From His Letters (1838 and 1845)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoughts on Modern Literature (1840)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, From Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1850)
- Matthew Arnold, [Byron] (1881)
- Oscar Wilde, From The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
- George Bernard Shaw, Dedicatory Letter to Man and Superman (1903)
- James Joyce From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
- Virginia Woolf, From A Writer’s Diary (Wednesday, August 7, 1918)
- William Butler Yeats, From A Vision (1922)
- T.E. Lawrence, From Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926)
- Charles Du Bos, Byron and the Need of Fatality (1931)
- Mario Praz, From The Romantic Agony (1933)
- T.S. Eliot, Byron (1937)
- Albert Camus, From The Rebel (1951)
- Vladimir Nabakov, From Lolita (1955)
- W.H. Auden, Byron: The Making of a Comic Poet (1966)
- Angus Wilson, Evil in the English Novel (1967)
- Anthony Lewis, At Last Lord Byron Gets Place in Poet’s Corner in Westminster (1968)
- Chronology
Selected Bibliography