Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- BYRON'S POETRY AND PROSE
- PART ONE: EARLY YEARS AND FIRST PILGRIMAGE (1803-1812)
- Biographical Headnote
- Poetry
- A Fragment ("When, to their airy hall, my fathers' voice")
- Fragment. Written Shortly After the Marriage of Miss Chaworth
- The Cornelian
- Lachin Y Gair
- I Would I Were a Careless Child
- Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed From a Skull
- from English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
- Maid of Athens, Ere We Part
- Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, A Romaunt
- Canto the First
- Canto the Second
- To Thyrza ("Without a stone to mark the spot")
- Letters
- Catherine Gordon Byron, 1-10 May 1804[?]
- Augusta Byron, 6 November 1805
- Elizabeth Bridget Pigot, 5 July 1807
- Elizabeth Bridget Pigot, 26 October 1807
- Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808
- Francis Hodgson, 30 June 1809 ("Huzza! Hodgson, we are going")
- Francis Hodgson, 16 July1809 (Lisbon)
- Catherine Gordon Byron, 11 August 1809 (excerpt)
- Catherine Gordon Byron, 12 November 1809
- Journal entry, 22 May 1811
- Francis Hodgson, 3 September 1811
- Francis Hodgson, 16 February 1812
- PART TWO: YEARS OF FAME IN REGENCY SOCIETY (1812-1816)
- Biographical Headnote
- Poetry
- An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill
- The Giaour
- Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte
- Stanzas for Music ("They say that Hope is happiness")
- Stanzas for Music ("There's not a joy the world can give")
- from Hebrew Melodies
- She Walks In Beauty
- Sun of the Sleepless!
- The Destruction of Sennacherib
- When We Two Parted
- Stanzas for Music ("There be none of Beauty's daughters")
- Fare Thee Well!
- Letters and Journals
- Lord Holland, 25 February 1812
- Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812
- Walter Scott, 6 July 1812
- Lady Melbourne, 25 September 1812
- Lady Caroline Lamb, 29 April 1813
- John Murray, 26 August 1813
- Lady Melbourne, 5 September 1813
- Annabella Milbanke, 6 September 1813 (excerpt)
- Lady Melbourne, 21 September 1813 ("'Tis said–Indifference marks the present time")
- Lady Melbourne, 8 October 1813 (excerpt)
- Annabella Milbanke, 29 November 1813 (excerpt)
- Journal, 14 November 1813 - 19 April 1814 (excerpts)
- James Hogg, 24 March 1814
- Lady Melbourne, 26 June 1814
- Thomas Moore, 20 September 1814
- Annabella Milbanke, 20 October 1814
- Lady Melbourne, 13 November 1814
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 18 October 1815
- Leigh Hunt, 30 October 1815 (excerpt)
- Lady Byron, 8 February 1816
- PART THREE: EXILE ON LAKE GENEVA (April-October 1816)
- Biographical Headnote
- Poetry
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
- Canto the Third
- The Prisoner of Chillon. A Fable
- Sonnet on Chillon
- Prometheus
- Epistle to Augusta
- Darkness
- Manfred
- Letters and Journals
- John Murray, 28 August 1816
- Augusta Leigh, 8 September 1816
- from Alpine Journal, September 1816
- PART FOUR: FINAL PILGRIMAGE: ITALY AND GREECE (1816-1824)
- Biographical Headnote
- Poetry
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
- Canto the Fourth
- Beppo. A Venetian Story
- To the Po. June 2nd 1819
- from Don Juan
- Dedication and Canto the First
- from Canto the Second
- Canto the Third
- from Canto the Fourth
- Canto the Fifth
- from Canto the Ninth
- from Canto the Tenth
- Canto the Eleventh
- from Canto the Twelfth
- Canto the Thirteenth
- from Canto the Fourteenth
- from Canto the Fifteenth
- Canto the Sixteenth
- Canto the Seventeenth
- Francesca of Rimini
- The Vision of Judgment
- On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year
- Letters and Journals
- Thomas Moore, 17 November 1816
- John Murray, 25 November 1816 ("In this beloved marble view")
- Augusta Leigh, 19 December 1816
- Thomas Moore, 24 December 1816 (excerpt) ("What are yo doing now, Oh Thomas Moore?"; "As the Liberty lads o'er the Sea")
- Thomas Moore, 28 January 1817 (excerpt)
- Thomas Moore, 28 February 1817 ("So we'll go no more a roving")
- John Murray, 30 May 1817
- Thomas Moore, 10 July 1817 (excerpt) ("My boat is on the shore")
- John Murray, 15 September 1817
- John Murray, 8 January 1818 ("My dear Mr. Murray")
- Thomas Moore, 19 September 1818
- Hobhouse and Kinnaird, 19 January 1819
- John Murray, 6 April 1819
- Hobhouse, 6 April 1819
- Douglas Kinnaird, 24 April 1819
- Teresa Guiccioli, 25 April 1819
- John Murray, 15 May 1819
- Augusta Leigh, 17 May 1819
- John Murray, 18 May 1819
- Augusta Leigh, 26 July 1819
- John Murray, 1 August 1819
- John Murray, 12 August 1819 (excerpt)
- John Cam Hobhouse, 23 August 1819
- Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1819
- John Murray, 29 October 1819
- Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 29 October 1819
- John Murray, 21 February 1820
- John Cam Hobhouse, 3 March 1820
- Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 10 September 1820 (excerpt)
- Thomas Moore, 5 November 1820 (excerpt) ("When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home"; "Endorsement to the Deed of Separation"; "To Penelope, January 2, 1821")
- John Murray, 9 November 1820 (excerpt)
- John Murray, 18 November 1820 (excerpt)
- John Murray, 9 December 1820
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, 26 April 1821
- John Murray, 6 July 1821
- John Murray, 31 August 1821
- John Murray, 24 September 1821
- from Detached Thoughts, 15 October 1821-18 May 1822
- Thomas Moore, 4 March 1822 (excerpt)
- From Journal in Cephalonia, 28 September 1823
- Yusuff Pasha, 23 January 1824
- From Journal in Cephalonia, 15 February 1824
- Mr. Mayer, 21 February 1824?
- CRITICISM
- Headnote
- Nineteenth-century Responses
- Views by Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Coleridge, and Goethe.
- Reviews in The Edinburgh Review and Blackwood's Magazine.
- Robert Southey. [On Don Juan and the "Satanic school" of poetry].
- Algernon Charles Swinburne. Preface to his Selections from the Works of Lord Byron.
- John Morley. Essay on Byron in Fortnightly Review.
- Matthew Arnold. From "Memorial Verses" and Preface to his edition, Poetry of Byron.
- Twentieth-Century and Recent Criticism
- General Studies
- G. Wilson Knight. From Lord Byron: Christian Virtues.
- Anne Barton. "Byron and the Mythology of Fact."
- Malcolm Kelsall. "Byron's Politics."
- Jerome J. McGann. "The Book of Byron and the Book of a World."
- Jane Stabler. "Byron, Postmodernism, and Intertextuality."
- Studies of Individual Works
- Donald H. Reiman. "Byron and the 'Other': Poems 1808-1816."
- Philip W. Martin. "Heroism and History: Childe Harold I and II."
- Marilyn Butler. "The Orientalism of Byron's Giaour."
- Caroline Franklin. "'A Soulless Toy for Tyrant's Lust?': The Heroine as Passive
- Victim."
- Peter J. Manning. "Titans and Exiles: Sublime Self and Single Voice."
- Alan Richardson. "Byron and the Theatre."
- Jerome Christensen. "The Shaping Spirit of Ruin
- Cheryl Fallon Giuliano. "Marginal Discourse: the Authority of Gossip in Beppo."
- Moyra Haslett. "The Political Implications of a Don Juan."
- Peter W. Graham. "Nothing So Difficult:" (excerpt).
- Susan J. Wolfson. "'Their She-Condition': Cross-Dressing and the Politics of Gender in
- Don Juan."
- James Chandler. "'Man fell with Apples': the Moral Mechanics of Don Juan."
- Cecil Y. Lang. "Narcissus Jilted: Byron, Don Juan and the Biographical Imperative."
- Stuart Peterfreund. "The Politics of 'Neutral Space' in Byron's Vision of Judgment."
- Biographical Register
- Byron: A Chronology
- Selected Bibliography
- Index of Poem Titles and First Lines
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