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Bone, Drummond: ''The Cambridge Companion To Byron'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-521-78676-2 | Bone, Drummond: ''The Cambridge Companion To Byron'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-521-78676-2 | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links / Text Editions== | ||
* Fragment of a Novel(1816), by George Gordon (Lord Byron) http://www.sff.net/people/DoyleMacdonald/l_frag.htm | |||
* Lord Byron's "Manfred" http://www.litgothic.com/Texts/manfred.html | |||
* Lord Byron's "Child Harold's Pilgrimage" http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/7086/chpindex.htm | |||
==External Links / Others== | |||
* Lord Byron's encounters with Percy Bysshe Shelley,Mary Godwin, and Claire Clairmont 1816-1821 http://www.harrys-stuff.com/byron/byron-shelley-diodati.php | * Lord Byron's encounters with Percy Bysshe Shelley,Mary Godwin, and Claire Clairmont 1816-1821 http://www.harrys-stuff.com/byron/byron-shelley-diodati.php | ||
* "Teaching the Truth about Byron's 'Vampyre' Letter", An essay by Jeffrey D. Hoeper http://engphil.astate.edu/gallery/galignan.html | * "Teaching the Truth about Byron's 'Vampyre' Letter", An essay by Jeffrey D. Hoeper http://engphil.astate.edu/gallery/galignan.html | ||
Revision as of 11:55, 20 November 2007
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22, 1788 - April 19, 1824), called Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet, known not only for his poetry, but also his very unconventional lifestyle and revolutionary attitude. Due to his financial and personal engagement in the Greek War of Independence, Lord Byron is considered a national hero in Greece.
Works
- 1806 Fugitive Pieces published
- 1807 Poems on Various Occasions published, Hours of Idleness published
- 1809 English Bards and Scotch Reviewers anonymously published
- 1811 'Hints from Horace' and The Curse of Minerva written (unauthorized publication in 1815)
- 1812 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Cantos I and II published, The Waltz written
- 1813 The Giaour and The Bride of Abydos published
- 1814 The Corsair and Lara published; Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte anonymously published
- 1815 Hebrew Melodies published
- 1816 The Prisonar of Chillan, The Siege of Corinth, Parisina and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III published
- 1817 Manfred published
- 1818 Beppo and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto IV published
- 1819 Prophecy of Dante written, Mazeppa and the Ode on Venice published, Don Juan Cantos I & II anonymously published
- 1821 Marino Faliero, Sardanapalus, The Two Foscari, Cain and Don Juan Cantos III - V published
- 1822 Vision of Judgement and Werner published
- 1823 Heaven and Earth, Age of Bronze, The Island and Don Juan Cantos VI–XIV published
- 1824 Don Juan Cantos XV–XVI published
Further Reading
Bone, Drummond: The Cambridge Companion To Byron, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-521-78676-2
External Links / Text Editions
- Fragment of a Novel(1816), by George Gordon (Lord Byron) http://www.sff.net/people/DoyleMacdonald/l_frag.htm
- Lord Byron's "Manfred" http://www.litgothic.com/Texts/manfred.html
- Lord Byron's "Child Harold's Pilgrimage" http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/7086/chpindex.htm
External Links / Others
- Lord Byron's encounters with Percy Bysshe Shelley,Mary Godwin, and Claire Clairmont 1816-1821 http://www.harrys-stuff.com/byron/byron-shelley-diodati.php
- "Teaching the Truth about Byron's 'Vampyre' Letter", An essay by Jeffrey D. Hoeper http://engphil.astate.edu/gallery/galignan.html