Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22, 1788 - April 19, 1824), called Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet, known not only for his poetry, but also his very unconventional lifestyle and revolutionary attitude. Due to his financial and personal engagement in the Greek War of Independence, Lord Byron is considered a national hero in Greece.

Works

1806 Fugitive Pieces published

1807 Poems on Various Occasions published, Hours of Idleness published

1809 English Bards and Scotch Reviewers anonymously published

1811 'Hints from Horace' and The Curse of Minerva written (unauthorized publication in 1815)

1812 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Cantos I and II published, The Waltz written

1813 The Giaour and The Bride of Abydos published

1814 The Corsair and Lara published; Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte anonymously published

1815 Hebrew Melodies published

1816 The Prisonar of Chillan, The Siege of Corinth, Parisina and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III published

1817 Manfred published

1818 Beppo and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto IV published

1819 Prophecy of Dante written, Mazeppa and the Ode on Venice published, Don Juan Cantos I & II anonymously published

1821 Marino Faliero, Sardanapalus, The Two Foscari, Cain and Don Juan Cantos III - V published

1822 Vision of Judgement and Werner published

1823 Heaven and Earth, Age of Bronze, The Island and Don Juan Cantos VI–XIV published

1824 Don Juan Cantos XV–XVI published

Further Reading

• Benita Eisler, Byron, Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame, new York, 1999
• André Maurois, Don Juan ou la Vie de Byron, Paris 1952
• Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, “Byron” in: Letteratura inglese, 1991
• Edward John Trelawny, Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author, 1868
• Bone, Drummond: The Cambridge Companion To Byron, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-521-78676-2

External Links / Text Editions

• Fragment of a Novel(1816), by George Gordon (Lord Byron) http://www.sff.net/people/DoyleMacdonald/l_frag.htm
• Lord Byron's "Manfred" http://www.litgothic.com/Texts/manfred.html
• Lord Byron's "Child Harold's Pilgrimage" http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/7086/chpindex.htm
• Lord Byron's "Don Juan" http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/7086/donjuan.htm

External Links / Others

• Lord Byron's encounters with Percy Bysshe Shelley,Mary Godwin, and Claire Clairmont 1816-1821 http://www.harrys-stuff.com/byron/byron-shelley-diodati.php
• "Teaching the Truth about Byron's 'Vampyre' Letter", An essay by Jeffrey D. Hoeper http://engphil.astate.edu/gallery/galignan.html