Lord Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1818) is a book length poem by British Romantic Lord Byron. Published in cantos, the narrative poem is arranged in four parts, each following the journey of Harold, a character based on Byron himself. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage established Byron's reputation as a leading poet of his era, laying the foundation for many of the elements of Romantic poetry-melancholy, sublime and beautiful landscapes, and a wandering hero-that...

Lord George Gordon Byron was the flamboyant aristocratic poet who is as renowned for his personal life as he is for his poetry. The victim of an untimely death, Lord Byron lived from 1788 to 1824. Despite this relatively short life he still managed to create a volume of poetry that achieved him the status as one of the greatest of all English poets. This representative selection includes such classics as "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", a sweeping narrative...

This is the fifth volume of seven THE COMPLETE WORKS OF LORD BYRON, Vol 5. The plays and poems contained in this volume were written within the space of two years-the last two years of Byron's career as a poet. But that was not all. Cantos VI.-XV. of Don Juan, The Vision of Judgment, The Blues, The Irish Avatar, and other minor poems, belong to the same period. The end was near, and, as though he had received a warning, he hastened to make the roll...

This is the seventh volume of seven THE COMPLETE WORKS OF LORD BYRON, Vol 7. Of the seventy-three "Epigrams and Jeux d'Esprit," which are printed at the commencement of this volume, forty-five were included in Murray's one-volume edition of 1837, eighteen have been collected from various publications, and ten are printed and published for the first time. The "Devil's Drive," which appears in Moore's Letters and Journals, and in the sixth volume of...

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This is the sixth volume of seven THE COMPLETE WORKS OF LORD BYRON, Vol 6. The text of this edition of Don Juan has been collated with original MSS. in the possession of the Lady Dorchester and Mr. John Murray. The fragment of a Seventeenth Canto, consisting of fourteen stanzas, is now printed and published for the first time.

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Excerpt: "In preparing this volume for the press, use has been also made of a mass of material, bearing more or less directly on Byron's life, which was accumulated by the grandfather and father of Mr. Murray. The notes thus contain, it is believed, many details of biographical interest, which are now for the first time published."

This is the third volume of seven THE COMPLETE WORKS OF LORD BYRON, Vol 3. The present volume contains the six metrical tales which were composed within the years 1812 and 1815, the Hebrew Melodies, and the minor poems of 1809-1816. With the exception of the first fifteen poems (1809-1811)-Chansons de Voyage, as they might be called-the volume as a whole was produced on English soil. Beginning with the Giaour; which followed in the wake of Childe...

Extrait : "«Sur les ondes joyeuses de la mer sombre et bleue, comme elles nos pensées sont sans bornes, et nos âmes libres comme elles ; aussi loin que la brise peut porter, partout o les vagues écument, voilà notre empire, voilà notre patrie. Ce sont là nos royaumes, o notre puissance n'a point de limites. Notre pavillon est le sceptre auquel obéissent tous ceux qui le rencontrent. Dans notre vie turbulente et sauvage, nous passons, avec...