Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1

by Lord Byron, Ernest Hartley Coleridge (Editor)

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Genres: Poetry, Classics

504 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 4, 2008

About the author

George Gordon Byron (invariably known as Lord Byron), later Noel, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale FRS was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential, both in the English-speaking world and beyond.

Byron's notabilty rests not only on his writings but also on his life, which featured upper-class living, numerous love affairs, debts, and separation. He was notably described by Lady Caroline Lamb as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know". Byron served as a regional leader of Italy's revolutionary organization, the Carbonari, in its struggle against Austria. He later travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died from a fever contracted while in Messolonghi in Greece.

Reviews

[Rain · Rating 4 out of 5]

This rocks. All the gloomy, bitchy brooding you could want. The diss track about the guy who looted the Parthenon for British Imperial interests, and the absolutely unhinged rant against waltzing, are just bonus delights.

And this is all from when he was a kid! Excellent footnotes too, even if amazon screws them up in the kindle version.

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 by George Gordon Lord Byron – This was an Amazon freebie. I’ve been reading a few a day for a while, but Byron was prolific enough to keep me busy for a while! Happy Reading!

[E.J. Cullen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lordie Lordie

[Judi · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this on my e-reader that I only use when travelling and if there are real books available at my destination I read those, so it took me a long time. (Also did not travel for several years).

[Harsha · Rating 2 out of 5]

Despite all the eulogies people heap on Byron's poems, I fail to see why they are so liked. Except for a few, the rest were very much boring.

[Alyssa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wow is this guy cheesy. Thought I'd try some more poets but Byron is cloyingly rhyme-y and frou-frou. Gave up bc I couldn't stand anymore. The one shining moment was the hilarious poem titled "To a lady who presented to the author a lock of hair braided with his own, and appointed a night in December to meet him in the garden."