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Author Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.

Title Byron's poetry : authoritative texts, letters and journals, criticism, images of Byron / selected and edited by Frank D. McConnell
Edition First edition
Published New York : Norton, [1978]
©1978

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 MELB  820.7 B9965 A21/Mc  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 484 pages ; 22 cm
Series A Norton critical edition
Norton critical edition.
Contents From Hours of Idleness (1807) -- 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 ata 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 Hebreew Melodies (1815) -- She Walks in Beauty -- The Harp the Monarch Minstrel Swept -- My Soul is Dark -- The Destruction of Sennacherib -- Other Lyrics -- Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos -- To Thyrza -- Prometheus -- Epistle to Augusta -- Darkness -- So We'll Go No More A-Roving -- Versicles -- On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage -- 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) -- Fragment on the Back of the Ms. of Canto the First -- Dedication -- anto the First -- Canto the Second (verses CXLI-CCXVI) -- Canto the Fifth -- Canto the Ninth -- Canto the Sixteenth -- Letters and Journals: To His Mother, May 1, 1803 -- To Francis Hodgson, November 3k 1808 -- To William Harness, May 3, 1810 -- 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: Lord Byron's Pilgrimage / Bergen Evans -- Byron: The Historical Context / John D. Jump -- Byron and the Romantic Lyric / Michael G. Cooke -- The Poet of Childe Harold / Francis Berry -- The Giaour as Experimental Narrative / Robert F. Gleckner -- Byron's Plays and Don Juan / James R. Thompson -- Byron as Antipoet / Frank D. McConnell -- Byron in the Twentieth Century / Leslie A. Marchand -- Byron and the Terrestrial Paradise / E.D. Hirsch, Jr
Summary Attempts to present a comprehensive view of Byron's work and life by including selections from his letters, a chronology of his life, critical essays, and a broad selection of his poetry
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 483-484
Subject Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Correspondence.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Diaries.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Correspondence.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Diaries.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. Correspondence
Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Poets, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence.
Poets, English -- 19th century -- Diaries.
Genre/Form Personal correspondence.
Diaries.
Biographies.
Author McConnell, Frank D., 1942-1999.
LC no. 78004902
ISBN 0393044521
039309152X (paperback)
Other Titles Selected works. 1978