Lord Byron The Major Works

by Byron, George Gordon, Lord; McGann, Jerome J.

• ISBN13: 9780192840400
• ISBN10: 0192840401
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Byron's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by important letters, journals, and conversations -to give the essence of his work and thinking. Byron is regarded today as the ultimate Romantic, whose name has entered the language to describe a man of brooding passion. Although his private life shocked his contemporaries his poetry was immensely popular and influential, especially in Europe. This comprehensive edition includes the completetexts of his two poetic masterpieces Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan, as well as the dramatic poems Manfred and Cain. There are many other shorter poems and part of the satire English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. In addition there is a selection from Byron's inimitable letters, extracts fromhis journals and conversations, as well as more formal writings.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Chronology	xxiv
Note on the Text	xxvii
POETRY
A Fragment (`When, to their airy hall, my fathers' voice')	1	(1)
The Farewell to a Lady	1	(1)
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers	2	(17)
[Lines to Mr. Hodgson]	13	(2)
Song (`Maid of Athens, ere we part')	15	(1)
Written Beneath a Picture	16	(1)
To Thyrza (`One struggle more, and I am free')	16	(3)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	19	(188)
The Giaour	207	(40)
The Corsair	247	(3)
LARA	250	(3)
Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte	253	(21)
Stanzas for Music (`I speak not-I trace not-I breathe not thy name')	258	(1)
She Walks in Beauty	258	(1)
Stanzas for Music (`There's not a joy the world can give')	259	(1)
When We Two Parted	260	(1)
Fare Thee Well!	261	(2)
[A Fragment] (`Could I remount the river of my years')	263	(1)
Prometheus	264	(2)
Stanzas to [Augusta]	266	(2)
[Epistle to Augusta]	268	(4)
Darkness	272	(2)
Manfred	274	(42)
[`So, We'll Go No More A Roving']	315	(1)
Beppo	316	(29)
[Epistle to Mr Murray]	342	(3)
Mazeppa	345	(28)
To the Po	369	(1)
[Stanzas] (`Could Love for ever')	370	(3)
Don Juan	373	(508)
[Stanzas] (`When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home')	880	(1)
Cain	881	(58)
The Vision of Judgment	939	(42)
[Thoughts on Freedom]	969	(1)
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year	969	(2)
LETTERS AND OTHER PROSE
To Mrs Catherine Gordon Byron, 12 Nov. 1809	971	(4)
To Lady Melbourne, 15 Sept. 1812	975	(2)
To Lady Melbourne, 25 Sept. 1812	977	(1)
To Lady Melbourne, 8 Oct. 1813	978	(3)
Alpine Journal (1816)	981	(34)
To Augusta Leigh, 15 Oct. 1816	990	(1)
To Augusta Leigh, 19 Dec. 1816	991	(2)
To Thomas Moore, 24 Dec. 1816	993	(4)
To Lady Byron, 18 Nov. 1818	997	(1)
To John Murray, 6 April 1819	998	(1)
To John Cam Hobhouse, 17 May 1819	999	(3)
To John Murray, 1 Aug. 1819	1002	(6)
from a letter to John Murray, 12 Aug. 1819	1008	(2)
To Lady Byron, to Dec. 1820	1010	(2)
To Thomas Moore, 19 Sept. 1821	1012	(2)
from Thomas Medwin's Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (1821)	1014	(1)
Detached Thoughts (1821-2)	1015	(3)
Journal (1824)	1018	(3)
To Augusta Leigh, 23 Feb. 1824	1019	(2)
Notes	1021	(56)
Further Reading	1077	(2)
Index of Titles and First Lines	1079	(2)
Index of Recipients of the Letters	1081