The George Gordon Lord Byron Page



( 1788-1824 )

The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece!
Where burning Sappho loved and sung,
Where grew the arts of war and peace,
Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung !
Eternal summer gilds them yet,
But all, except their sun, is set.


Major Works
There is a Norton Critical Edition of Byron's Poetry edited by Frank D. McConnell, 1978.
Hours of Idleness ( 1807 ).
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers: A Satire ( 1809 ).
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt ( 1812; 1816; 1818; 1819 ).
The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale ( 1813 ).
The Bride of Abydos: A Turkish Tale ( 1813 ).
The Corsair: A Tale ( 1814 ).
Lara: A Tale ( 1814 ).
Hebrew Melodies Ancient and Modern ( 1815 ).
The Siege of Corinth. Parisina
The Prisoner of Chillon and Other Poems ( 1816 ).
Manfred: A Dramatic Poem ( 1817 ). On Line
Beppo: A Venetian Story ( 1818 ).
Mazeppa: A Poem ( 1819 ).
Don Juan ( 1819; 1826 ). On Line
Marino Faliero: An Historical Tragedy. The Prophecy of Dante ( 1821 ).
Sardanalus. The Two Foscari; Cain ( 1821 ).
The Vision of Judgement ( 1822 ).
The Age of Bronze ( 1823 ).
Werner: A Tragedy ( 1823 ).
The Deformed Transformed: A Drama ( 1824 ).
The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Oxford, 1945.
Byron: A Self-Portrait: Letters and Diaries, 1798-1824. Two Volumes. Edited by Peter Quennell. John Murray, 1950.
The Selected Letters of Lord Byron. Edited with an introduction by Jacques Barzun. Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953.
Selected Poetry from U. of Toronto.
Selected Poems from Bartleby.

About Byron
Leslie A. Marchand, Byron: A Biography. Three Volumes. Knopf, 1957.
Lord Byron: A Comprehensive Study. . .
Byron Criticism from Internet Public Library.

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