Lord Byron

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Aurum, 1989 - 64 pages

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Contents

Introduction
10
Harold Alone
20
She Walks in Beauty
26
Copyright

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Lord Byron: Don Juan
George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
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banks of Rhine BEPPO blood breathe Bridge of Sighs Bridgeman Art Library broken brow Byron was writing Childe Harold CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE clay cried Aloud dear deem Don Juan Drachenfels dwell earth English eyes fire freeborn gaze glittering Glory glow Greece Haidée Haidée's heart Hellespont helpless hour ILLUSTRATED POETS isle J. M. W. Turner kiss knew thee light lived London long poem long summer Look'd Lord Byron loved the world Martial Missolonghi moon moral Musée Newstead Abbey ocean old wine passions Photo Bridgeman Art pleasant place Poetical Commandments poetry prose Reproduced by courtesy Romantic roving Save scene sea-coal Shooter's Hill shore silence and tears skies smiles O'er soul STANFORD Sunk Tate Gallery thine things Thou shalt thy temples Tis sweet tower turn'd twas unto vale Venice VISION OF JUDGMENT Walks in Beauty walls Waterloo wave wert thou wonder written praises wrote XXXX XXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

About the author (1989)

Peter Porter was born in Brisbane, Australia on February 16, 1929. He moved to London in 1951 and worked as a bookseller and in advertising before writing on poetry for the Observer. In 1961, he published his first collection of poems, Once Bitten, Twice Bitten. His other works include The Cost of Seriousness, Better Than God, and Max is Missing, which won the Forward prize in 2001. His other awards include the Duff Cooper prize, the Whitbread poetry award, and the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry. He died on April 23, 2010 at the age of 81.

Bibliographic information

TitleLord Byron
Illustrated poets
AuthorGeorge Gordon Byron Baron Byron
ContributorPeter Porter
Edition2, illustrated
PublisherAurum, 1989
ISBN1854100661, 9781854100665
Length64 pages
  
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