The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry

by Lord Byron, Ernest Hartley Coleridge (editor)

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Genres: Poetry

636 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 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

[D.M. · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is not what I thought it would be. It did have poems of Lord Byron's, but over 80% of the book was reference to the publishing and translations without poetry. This is a good reference book if you're studying Lord Byron's works, but if you want to read his poetry, this book won't do.

[Val.F · Rating 3 out of 5]

As per one of the previous reviews this is mainly a reference book with just a small selection of his poems to read-probably better for anyone studying Byron rather than just wanting to enjoy his poetry-I did really enjoy one of his unfinished poems The Devils Drive -it made me chuckle to see The Times newspaper mentioned!