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Informationen zum Autor Lord Byron Klappentext The 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Zusammenfassung The 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Inhaltsverzeichnis Selected 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 Satire Lines 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-II Preface 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 Hymn Remember Thee! Remember Thee! The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The Bride of Abydos: A Turkish Tale The Corsair: A Tale Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte Stanzas for Music She walks in beauty Lara: A Tale The Destruction of Sennacherib Napoleon's Farewell (From the French) From the French ('Must thou go, my glorious Chief') The Siege of Corinth When we two parted Fare thee well! Prometheus The Prisoner of Chillon: A Fable and Sonnet on Chillon Darkness Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt, Canto III <...
