Byron

by Lord Byron, George R. Creeger (Contributor), Richard Wilbur (Editor)

A collection of Lord Byron's most well known poems such as To a Lady, My Soul is Dark, To a Lady Who Presented to the Author a Lock of Hair, Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos, Stanzas for Music, She Walks in Beauty, So We'll Go No More A-Roving and more. Includes a bibliography and chronology of his work and life.

Genres: Poetry, Classics, Literature

159 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

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

[Mikael · Rating 4 out of 5]

u know hes a funny guy once youve read don juan

[J.P. Harker]

I'm not giving this a rating because I skimmed so much of it - this really wasn't for me. Some of the shorter poems had some nice stuff, but the epics weren't worth the amount of time spent reading them. Can't recommend, but can't justifiably rate either because of how zoned-out I became by the halfway point.

[Iris Windmeijer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Byron works his magic, I adore his poetry and this collection of his works is yet another great example of why he was such a great writer.