Selected Poetry of Lord ByronPoet, celebrity, and revolutionary, Lord (George Gordon) Byron was one of the most influential and controversial figures of the first half of the nineteenth century, his distinctive, deeply felt work comprising one of the enduring high points of Romantic literature. From “Manfred,” with its evocation of the figure that came to be called the “Byronic hero,” to the melancholy “Childe Harold,” to the satirical masterpiece “Don Juan” (presented here in judiciously selected form), this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes all of the essential Byron. |
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... sweet sentimentality , and unexceptionable good taste . Moore , who was also an accomplished performer , was the most successful purveyor of such goods in the early Romantic era , but Byron wrote a couple of dozen almost as endearing ...
... sweet sentimentality , and unexceptionable good taste . Moore , who was also an accomplished performer , was the most successful purveyor of such goods in the early Romantic era , but Byron wrote a couple of dozen almost as endearing ...
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... sweet songs . He had ambitions that could only be satisfied on the scale of the big players - Shakespeare , Dante , Tasso , Goethe ; accordingly he wrote a goodly number of long narrative poems , sustained meditations , and verse dramas ...
... sweet songs . He had ambitions that could only be satisfied on the scale of the big players - Shakespeare , Dante , Tasso , Goethe ; accordingly he wrote a goodly number of long narrative poems , sustained meditations , and verse dramas ...
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... Sweet was the scene , yet soon he thought to flee , More restless than the swallow in the skies : Though here awhile he learned to moralise , For Meditation fixed at times on him ; And conscious Reason whispered to despise His early ...
... Sweet was the scene , yet soon he thought to flee , More restless than the swallow in the skies : Though here awhile he learned to moralise , For Meditation fixed at times on him ; And conscious Reason whispered to despise His early ...
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... sweet . XL By Heaven ! it is a splendid sight to see ( For one who hath no friend , no brother there ) Their rival scarfs of mixed embroidery , Their various arms that glitter in the air ! What gallant War - hounds rouse them from their ...
... sweet . XL By Heaven ! it is a splendid sight to see ( For one who hath no friend , no brother there ) Their rival scarfs of mixed embroidery , Their various arms that glitter in the air ! What gallant War - hounds rouse them from their ...
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... sweet sight for vulgar eyes— Four steeds that spurn the rein , as swift as shy , Hurl the dark bulk along , scarce seen in dashing by . LXXX Such the ungentle sport that oft invites The Spanish maid , and cheers the Spanish swain ...
... sweet sight for vulgar eyes— Four steeds that spurn the rein , as swift as shy , Hurl the dark bulk along , scarce seen in dashing by . LXXX Such the ungentle sport that oft invites The Spanish maid , and cheers the Spanish swain ...
Contents
| 5 | |
Early Poems | 167 |
Miscellaneous and Occasional Poems | 184 |
Churchills Grave | 222 |
Stanzas to the Po | 229 |
Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa | 235 |
Domestic Pieces | 259 |
Jeux dEsprit and Ephemeral Verses | 271 |
The Vision of Judgment | 326 |
From DON JUAN | 357 |
THE GIAOUR | 539 |
From THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS | 577 |
ВЕРРО | 597 |
MANFRED | 627 |
NOTES | 671 |
INDEX OF TITLES | 743 |
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