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This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers readers a generous selection of the poetry upon which Byron's fame depended and his reputation now rests. It presents the poems in the chronological order in which they were published, working in almost every case from their first appearances in print.
List of contents
- From FUGITIVE PIECES (1806)
- On Leaving Newstead
- To Maria--------
- Epitaph on a Beloved Friend
- To Mary
- ['When, to their airy hall, my fathers' voice']
- On a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill. 1806
- To Mary, On Receiving her Picture
- The Cornelian
- From HOURS OF IDLENESS (1807)
- Lachin Y. Gair
- To ------- ['Oh! had my Fate been joined with thine']
- 'Stanzas to Jessy'
- Letter to Elizabeth Bridget Pigot, 2 August 1807, London
- From POEMS ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED
- Song ['When I rov'd, a young Highlander, o'er the dark heath']
- Stanzas ['I would I were a careless child']
- From IMITATIONS AND TRANSLATIONS (1809)
- Inscription on the Monument of a Favourite Dog
- To *********************** ['Well! thou art happy, and I feel']
- A Love Song. To ********* ['Remind me not, remind me not']
- To the Same ['And wilt thou weep when I am low?']
- Stanzas to ******** on Leaving England
- Letter to Mrs. Catherine Gordon Byron, Constantinople, 28 June 1810
- 'An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill'
- From CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE, A ROMAUNT: AND OTHER POEMS (1812)
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, A Romaunt [Cantos I and II]
- Written in an Album
- Stanzas ['Chill and mirk is the nightly blast']
- Written after swimming from Sestos to Abydos. May 9, 1810
- Song. Zoe mou, sas agapo. Athens, 1810 ['Maid of Athens, ere we part']
- Written Beneath a Picture
- To Thyrza ['Without a stone to mark the spot']
- To Thyrza ['One struggle more and I am free']
- Letter to Lady Caroline Lamb, 29 April 1813
- Letter to Annabella Milbanke, 6 September 1813
- Letter to Lady Melbourne, 8 October 1813
- The Giaour (1813; 7th edition)
- Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte (1814; 3rd edition)
- From HEBREW MELODIES (1815)
- She Walks in Beauty
- My Soul is Dark
- Sun of the Sleepless!
- The Destruction of Sennacherib
- Letter to Lady Byron, 8 February 1816
- From POEMS (1816)
- Stanzas ['Bright by the place of thy soul']
- When We Two Parted
- Stanzas for Music ['There be none of Beauty's daughters']
- Fare Thee Well!
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Third (1816)
- From BYRON'S ALPINE JOURNAL (17-29 September 1816)
- From THE PRISONER OF CHILLON AND OTHER POEMS (1816)
- Stanzas to -------- ['Though the day of my destiny's over']
- Darkness
- Churchill's Grave
- The Dream
- Prometheus
- Letter to Augusta Leigh, 8 September 1816, Villa Diodati
- Manfred, A Dramatic Poem (1817)
- Letter to Thomas Moore, 28 January 1817, Venice
- Letter to Thomas Moore, Venice, 28 February 1817 ['So we'll go no more a-roving']
- Letter to John Murray, 15 September 1817, Venice
- Letter to John Murray, January 8, 1818 ['My dear Mr. Murray']
- Beppo, A Venetian Story (1818; 5th edition)
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth (1818)
- Don Juan I-II (1819)
- Letter to John Cam Hobhouse and Douglas Kinnaird, 19 January 1819, Venice
- Letter to Augusta Leigh, 17 May 1819, Venice
- Letter to John Murray, 7 June 1819, Bologna
- Letter to Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1819, Venice
- Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley, 26 April 1821, Ravenna
- Don Juan III-V (1821)
- The Vision of Judgement (1822)
- Letter to August Leigh, 12 December 1822, Genoa
- 'Preface' to The Vision of Judgement (1823)
- Letter to John Cam Hobhouse, 7 April 1823, Genoa
- Don Juan VI-VIII (1823)
- Don Juan IX-XI (1823)
- From JOURNAL TO CEPHALONIA (19 June and 28 September 1823)
- Don Juan XII-XIV (1823)
- Don Juan XV-XVI (1824)
- POSTHUMOUSLY PUBLISHED POEMS
- To the Po -- June 1819
- Stanzas ['Remember thee--remember thee!']
- Messolonghi, January 22, 1824: On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year
- When I Left Thy Shores, O Naxos
- ['I speak not--I trace not--I breathe not thy name']
- Extract from an Unpublished Poem ['Could I remount the river of my years']
- To Augusta ['My sister! my sweet sister! if a name']
- Francesca of Rimini
- ['When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home']
- ['Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story']
- ['Could Love for ever']
- Dedication to Don Juan [I-II]
- Verses ['I watched thee when the foe was at our side']
- Don Juan XVII fragment
About the author
Jonathan Sachs is Professor of English at Concordia University, Montreal. He is the author of The Poetics of Decline in British Romanticism (Cambridge, 2018), Romantic Antiquity: Rome in the British Imagination, 1789-1832 (Oxford, 2010), and, with the Multigraph Collective, Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation (Chicago, 2018). He has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the National Humanities Center.
Andrew Stauffer is Professor of English at the University of Virginia, where he specializes in Romanticism, book history, and nineteenth-century poetry. He is the author of Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library (Philadelphia, 2021) and Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism (Cambridge, 2005). His research has been supported by grants from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and he has held fellowships from the ACLS, NEH, and the Advanced Research Collaborative at the CUNY Graduate Center. Since 2013, he has served as the President of the Byron Society of America.
Summary
This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers readers a generous selection of the poetry upon which Byron's fame depended and his reputation now rests. It presents the poems in the chronological order in which they were published, working in almost every case from their first appearances in print.
Additional text
A fine new Oxford edition.
