Introduction xi
Acknowledgments xxv
Abbreviations xxix
Byron's Poetry and Prose 1
Part 1 Early Years and First Pilgrimage (1803-1812) 3
Poetry 4
A Fragment ("When, to their airy hall, my fathers' voice") 4
Fragment. Written Shortly After the Marriage of Miss Chaworth 4
The Cornelian 4
Lachin Y Gair 6
I Would I Were a Careless Child 7
Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull 9
From English Bards and Scotch Reviewers 10
Maid of Athens, Ere We Part 18
Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos 19
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 21
Canto the First 26
Canto the Second 55
To Thyrza ("Without a stone to mark the spot") 98
Letters and Journal 99
To Mrs. Catherine Gordon Byron (May 1-10, 1804[?]) 99
To Augusta Byron (November 6, 1805) 100
To Elizabeth Bridget Pigot (July 5, 1807) 101
To Elizabeth Bridget Pigot (October 26, 1807) 103
To Robert Charles Dallas (January 21, 1808) 104
To Charles Skinner Matthews (June 22, [1809]) 105
To Francis Hodgson (June 30, 1809) ["Huzza! Hodgson, we are going"] 105
To Francis Hodgson (July 16, 1809) 108
To Mrs. Catherine Gordon Byron (August 11, 1809) 108
To Mrs. Catherine Gordon Byron (November 12, 1809) 111
To John Cam Hobhouse (July 29, 1810) 115
Journal (May 22, 1811) ["Four or Five Reasons in Favour of a Change"] 116
To Francis Hodgson (September 3, 1811) 116
To Francis Hodgson (February 16, 1812) 117
Part 2 Years of Fame in Regency Society (1812-1816) 119
Poetry 120
An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill 120
The Giaour 121
Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte 156
From Hebrew Melodies 162
She Walks in Beauty 162
Sun of the Sleepless! 163
The Destruction of Sennacherib 163
Stanzasfor Music ("They say that Hope is happiness") 164
Stanzas for Music ("There's not a joy the world can give like that it take away") 165
When We Two Parted 166
Stanzas for Music ("There be none of Beauty's daughters") 167
Fare Thee Well! 167
Letters and Journal 169
To Lord Holland (February 25, 1812) 169
To Lady Caroline Lamb (May 1, 1812) 170
To Walter Scott (July 6, 1812) 171
To Lady Melbourne (September 25, 1812) 172
To Lady Caroline Lamb (April 29, 1813) 173
To John Murray (August 26, 1813) 174
To Lady Melbourne (September 5, 1813) 174
To Annabella Milbanke (September 6, 1813) 175
To Lady Melbourne (September 21, 1813) ["'Tis said-Indifference marks the present time"] 176
To Lady Melbourne (October 8, 1813) 177
To Annabella Milbanke (November 29, 1813) 179
Journal (November 16, 1813-April 10, 1814) 180
To James Hogg (March 24, 1814) 186
To Lady Melbourne (June 26, 1814) 187
To Thomas Moore (September 20, 1814) 188
To Annabella Milbanke (October 20, 1814) 189
To Lady Melbourne (November 13, 1814) 190
To Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 18, 1815) 191
To Leigh Hunt (October 30, 1815) 191
To Lady Byron (February 8, 1816) 193
Part 3 Exile on Lake Geneva (April-October 1816) 195
Poetry 196
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Third 196
The Prisoner of Chillon 229
Sonnet on Chillon 229
Prometheus 239
Epistle to Augusta 241
Darkness 245
Manfred 247
Letters and Journal 283
To John Murray (August 28, 1816) 283
To Augusta Leigh (September 8, 1816) 284
From Alpine Journal (September 17-29, 1816) 286
Part 4 Final Pilgrimage-Italy and Greece (1816-1824) 293
Poetry 295
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Fourth 295
Beppo 348
To the Po. June 2nd 1819 373
From Don Juan 375
Dedication 380
Canto the First 385
From Canto the Second 436
Canto the Third 474
From Canto the Fourth 503
Canto the Fifth 517
From Canto the Ninth 554
From Canto the Tenth 568
Canto the Eleventh 580
From Canto the Twelfth 602
Canto the Thirteenth 605
From Canto the Fourteenth 631
From Canto the Fifteenth 642
From Canto the Sixteenth 656
Canto the Seventeenth 679
Francesca of Rimini 683
The Vision of Judgment 684
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year 714
Letters and Journal 716
To Thomas Moore (November 17, 1816) 716
To John Murray (November 25, 1816) ["In this beloved marble view"] 718
To Augusta Leigh (December 19, 1816) 719
To Thomas Moore (December 24, 1816) ["what are you doing now"; "As the Liberty lads o'er the Sea"] 721
To Thomas Moore (January 28, 1817) 723
To Thomas Moore (February 28, 1817) ["So we'll go no more a roving"] 725
To John Murray (May 30, 1817) 726
To Thomas Moore (July 10, 1817) ["My boat is on the shore"] 727
To John Murray (September 15, 1817) 729
To John Murray (January 8, 1818) ["My dear Mr. Murray"] 730
To Thomas Moore (September 19, 1818) 733
To Hobhouse and Kinnaird (January 19, 1819) 734
To John Murray (April 6, 1819) 735
To John Cam Hobhouse (April 6, 1819) 736
To Douglas Kinnaird (April 24, 1819) 738
To Teresa Guiccioli (April 25, 1819) 739
To John Murray (May 15, 1819) 740
To Augusta Leigh (May 17, 1819) 741
To John Murray (May 18, 1819) 742
To Augusta Leigh (July 26, 1819) 743
To John Murray (August 1, 1819) 745
To John Murray (August 12, 1819) 749
To John Cam Hobhouse (August 23, 1819) 751
To Douglas Kinnaird (October 26, 1819) 752
To John Murray (October 29, 1819) 754
To Richard Belgrave Hoppner (October 29, 1819) 755
To John Murray (February 21, 1820) 756
To John Cam Hobhouse (March 3, 1820) 758
To Richard Belgrave Hoppner (September 10, 1820) 758
To Thomas Moore (November 5, 1820) ["When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home"; "Endorsement to the Deed of Separation, in the April of 1816"; "To Penelope, January 2, 1821"] 759
To John Murray (November 9, 1820) 761
To John Murray (November 18, 1820) 762
To John Murray (December 9, 1820) 762
To Percy Bysshe Shelley (April 26, 1821) 763
To John Murray (July 6, 1821) 764
To John Murray (August 31, 1821) 765
To John Murray (September 24, 1821) 767
From Detached Thoughts (October 15, 1821-May 18, 1822) 768
To Thomas Moore (March 4, 1822) 769
To Henri Beyle (May 29, 1823) 770
To Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (July 22, 1823) 771
From Journal in Cephalonia (June 19 and September 28, 1823) 772
To Yusuff Pasha (January 23, 1824) 774
From Journal in Cephalonia (February 15, 1824) 774
To Mr. Mayer (February 21, 1824?) 775
Criticism 777
Nineteenth-Century Responses 781
To Lord Byron (December 1814) John Keats 781
From Letter to George and Georgiana Keats (February 19, 1819) 781
From Letter to George and Georgiana Keats (September 20, 1819) 781
From Letter to John Scott (April 18, 1816) William Wordsworth 782
From Letter to Henry Crabb Robinson? (January 1820) 782
From Letter to Thomas Love Peacock (July 17, 1816) Percy Bysshe Shelley 782
From Letter to Byron (May 26, 1820) 782
From Letter to Thomas Love Peacock (August [10?], 1821) 783
From Review of Don Juan (1819) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 783
From Review of Hours of Idleness (1808) Henry P. Brougham 784
From Review of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage I-II (1812) Francis Jeffrey 785
From Review of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage III and Other Poems of 1816 (1817) 787
Remarks on Don Juan in Blackwood's Magazine (1819) John Wilson John Gibson Lockhart(?) 790
[On Don Juan and the "Satanic School" of Poetry] (1821) Robert Southey 794
[On Don Juan] (1822) Francis Jeffrey 796
From Preface to Selections from the Works of Lord Byron (1866) Algernon Charles Swinburne 797
From Fortnightly Review (1870) John Morley 799
From "Memorial Verses" (1850) From Preface to Poetry of Byron (1881) Matthew Arnold 800
Twentieth-Century and Recent Criticism 803
General Studies 803
From Lord Byron: Christian Virtues G. Wilson Knight 803
Byron and the Mythology of Fact Anne Barton 812
The Book of Byron and the Book of a World Jerome J. McGann 828
Byron's Politics Malcolm Kelsall 855
Byron, Postmodernism and Intertextuality Studies of Individual Works Jane Stabler 864
Studies of Individual Works 876
Byron and the "Other": Poems 1808-1814 Donald H. Reiman 876
The Orientalism of Byron's Lust?" The Heronie as Passive Victim Marilyn Butler 882
"A Soulless Toy for Tyrant's Lust?": The Heroine as Passive Victim Caroline Franklin 891
The Sublime Self and the Single Voice Peter J. Manning 898
Byron and the Theatre Alan Richardson 920
The Shaping Spirit of Ruin: Childe Harold IV Jerome Christensen 926
Marginal Discourse: The Authority of Gossip in Beppo Cheryl Fallon Giuliano 933
Nothing So Difficult [Opening Signals in Don Juan] Peter W. Graham 943
"Their She Condition": Cross-Dressing and the Politics of Gender in Don Juan Susan J. Wolfson 955
Narcissus Jilted: Byron, Don Juan and the Biographical Imperative Cecil Y. Lang 972
"Man fell with apples": The Moral Mechanics of Don Juan James Chandler 993
The Politics of "Neutral Space" in Byron's Vision of Judgment Stuart Peterfreund 1008
Biographical Register 1021
Byron: A Chronology 1035
Selected Bibliography 1039
Index of Poem Titles and First Lines 1047
