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Book SynopsisThe selected poems of a legendary romantic.Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and brilliant, he remains almost as notorious for his life - as a political revolutionary, sexual adventurer and traveller - as he does for his literary work. Yet he produced some of the most daring and exuberant poetry of the Romantic age, from 'To Caroline' and 'To Woman' to the satirical English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, his exotic Eastern tales and the colourful narrative of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, the work that made him famous overnight and gave birth to the idea of the brooding Byronic hero.
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Table of ContentsSelected Poems (Byron)Introduction
Table of Dates
Further Reading
A Note on This Edition
A Fragment ('When, to their airy hall, my fathers' voice')
To Woman
The Cornelian
To Caroline ('You say you love, and yet your eye')
English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A SatireLines to Mr Hodgson (Written on Board the Lisbon Packet)
Maid of Athens, ere we part
Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos
To Thyrza ('Without a stone to mark the spot')
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt, Cantos I-IIPreface to the First and Second Cantos
To Ianthe
Canto the First
Canto the Second
Appendix to Canto the Second
An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill
Lines to a Lady Weeping
The Waltz: An Apostrophic HymnRemember Thee! Remember Thee!
The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish TaleThe Bride of Abydos: A Turkish TaleThe Corsair: A TaleOde to Napoleon Buonaparte
Stanzas for Music
She walks in beauty
Lara: A TaleThe Destruction of Sennacherib
Napoleon's Farewell (From the French)
From the French ('Must thou go, my glorious Chief')
The Siege of CorinthWhen we two parted
Fare thee well!
Prometheus
The Prisoner of Chillon: A Fable and Sonnet on ChillonDarkness
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt, Canto IIIEpistle to Augusta ('My sister! my sweet sister!' &c.)
Lines (On Hearing that Lady Byron was Ill)
Manfred: A Dramatic PoemSo, we'll go no more a roving
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt, Canto IVEpistle from Mr Murray to Dr Polidori ('Dear Doctor, I have read your play')
Beppo: A Venetian StoryEpistle to Mr Murray ('My dear Mr Murray')
MazeppaStanzas to the Po
The Isles of Greece
Francesca of Rimini. From the
Inferno of Dante, Canto the Fifth
Stanzas ('When a man hath no freedom')
Sardanapalus: A TragedyWho kill'd John Keats?
The Blues" A Literary EclogueThe Vision of JudgmentOn This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year
Notes
Works Cited in the Notes
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines
