Poet, celebrity, and revolutionary, Lord (George Gordon) Byron was one of the most influential and controversial figures of the first half of the nineteenth century, his distinctive, deeply felt work comprising one of the enduring high points of Romantic literature. From ""Manfred,"" with its evocation of the figure that came to be called the ""Byronic hero,"" to the melancholy ""Childe Harold,"" to the satirical masterpiece ""Don Juan"" (presented here in judiciously selected form), this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes all of the essential Byron.
By:
Lord George G. Byron
Introduction by:
Thomas M. Disch
Edited by:
Leslie A. Marchand
Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 203mm,
Width: 133mm,
Spine: 42mm
Weight: 627g
ISBN: 9780375758140
ISBN 10: 0375758143
Series: Modern Library Classics
Pages: 768
Publication Date: 15 December 2001
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"Biographical Note Introduction Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the First Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Second Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Third Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Fourth On Leaving Newstead Abbey The First Kiss of Love To Woman Reply to Some Verses of J. M. B. Pigot, Esq., on the Cruelty of His Mistress To the Sighing Strephon Lachin Y Gair To Romance To a Lady ""I would I were a careless child"" ""When I rov'd a young Highlander"" Fragment, Written Shortly after the Marriage of Miss Chaworth Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog ""Well! thou art happy"" To a Lady, on Being Asked My Reason for Quitting England in the Spring Stanzas Written in Passing the Ambracian Gulf ""The spell is broke, the charm is flown!"" The Girl of Cadiz Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos ""Maid of Athens, ere we part"" Farewell to Malta Newstead Abbey Epistle to a Friend To Thyrza ""Away, away, ye notes of Woe!"" ""One struggle more, and I am free"" Euthanasia ""And thou art dead, as young and fair"" Lines to a Lady Weeping ""Remember thee! remember thee!"" ""Thou art not false, but thou art fickle"" Sonnet, To Genevra Sonnet, To the Same Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte Stanzas for Music (""I speak not,"" etc.) Stanzas for Music (""There's not a joy,"" etc.) Stanzas for Music (""There be none of Beauty's daughters"") Darkness Churchill's Grave Prometheus A Fragment (""could I remount,"" etc.) Sonnet to Lake Leman On Sam Rogers Stanzas to the Po Stanzas (""Could Love for ever"") Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa Aristomenes Last Words on Greece On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year [Love and Death] ""She walks in Beauty"" ""The Harp the Monarch Minstrel swept"" ""If that high world"" ""The wild gazelle"" ""Oh! weep for those"" ""On Jordan's banks"" Jephtha's Daughter ""Oh! snatched away in Beauty's bloom"" ""My soul is dark"" ""I saw the weep"" ""Thy days are done"" Song of Saul Before His Last Battle Saul ""All Is Vanity, Saith the Preacher"" ""When coldness wraps this suffering clay"" Vision of Belshazzar ""Sun of the sleepless!""253 ""Were my bosom as false as thou deem'st it to be"" Herod's Lament for Mariamne On the Day of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus By the Rivers of Babylon We Sat Down and Wept The Destruction of Sennacherib ""A Spirit passed before me"" ""By the Waters of Babylon"" Fare Thee Well Stanzas to Augusta (""When all around grew drear and dark"") Stanzas to Augusta (""Though the day of my Destiny's over"") The Dream Lines to Mr. Hodgson Translation of the Nurse's Dole in the Medea of Euripides Windsor Poetics ""So we'll go no more a-roving"" Versicles To Mr. Murray (""To book the reader, you, John Murray"") To Thomas Moore Epistle from Mr. Murray to Dr. Polidori Epistle to Mr. Murray (""My dear Mr. Murray"") To Mr. Murray (""Strahan, Tonson, Lintot of the times"") Epigram, from the French of Rulhieres Epilogue On My Wedding-Day My Boy Hobbie O Lines, Addressed by Lord Byron to Mr. Hobbouse on His Election for Westminster Epigram (""The world is a bundle of hay"") John Keats English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers The Vision of Judgment From Don Juan: Canto the First From Don Juan: Canto the Second From Don Juan: Canto the Third From Don Juan: Canto the Fourth From Don Juan: Canto the Seventh From Don Juan: Canto the Ninth From Don Juan: Canto the Eleventh From Don Juan: Canto the Twelfth From Don Juan: Canto the Thirteenth From Don Juan: Canto the Fourteenth From Don Juan: Canto the Fifteenth From Don Juan: Canto the Sixteenth From Don Juan: Canto the Seventeenth The Giaour From The Bride of Abydos From The Corsair The Prisoner of Chillon Beppo Manfred Notes Index of Titles"
Leslie A. Marchand, one of the foremost Byron scholars of the twentieth century, was general editor of the authoritative twelve-volume edition of Byron's Letters and Journals. Thomas M. Disch is the author of ten books of poetry and more than fifteen novels, including, most recently, Camp Concentration. He lives in upstate New York.
Reviews for Selected Poetry of Lord Byron
His capricious imagination rises . . . to heights that none can reach without wings. Victor Hugo