Lord Byron (Poet to Poet Book 38)

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The Works of Lord Byron

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But Oxford made a crucial mistake in their edition of Lord Byron: The Major Works--they didn't give Don Juan a separate volume. Here, they really should've followed Penguin's lead in creating separate volumes for Don Juan and another for Byron's other poetry. But it's even worse when one considers that the Oxford contains a sampling of Byron's prose. So after you subtract the pages for Don Juan and the prose, you're left with only about pages of Byron's other poetry in compared to Penguin's Now, granted, perhaps what's available here in the Oxford Edition will be enough for many readers, and it does still provide its usual advantages in paper, printing, font, notes, and intros.

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It's just a numbers thing; writing great poetry takes time and attention to small details. It's why it took Milton years to write Paradise Lost at a rate of or-so lines a day. Every detail had to be worked out. At Byron's best he was as good as anybody, and his skill combined with his unique philosophical worldview makes him endlessly provocative, compelling, and readable, even at his worst.

Byron didn't believe in Pope's maxim about how the real art of poetry was in rewriting and perfecting what one had written. He rarely tried to better his drafts, preferring to move on to the next project. I think this approach works best in his longer works where minor imperfections in the verse--be they occasionally bland, prose-like formulations, awkward meter, et al. But, in light of realizing that Byron was at his best in the longer pieces, it's precisely those that are hurt most in The Oxford Edition.

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So, I'll leave it up to each individual customer to decide if the Oxford's usual strengths compensate for the loss of these works. Another option is the Norton Critical Edition, which is more valuable for its critical apparatus than for the poetry itself. The table of contents is where you would expect the copyright page.

It could have been copied from anything. Fine scholarly edition, meticulously annotated. Perhaps a little dated, yet available online for free; incomplete on Wikisource , but complete on Gutenberg: Jeux d'Esprit, minor poems, bibliography. Reprinted 14 times until Wordsworth Poetry Library, The standard one-volume edition of the complete works.


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Byron's notes retained except in the Wordsworth edition where they are omitted! Very closely printed in very small font, too. Russian edition from that first sparked my Byronic interest. Excellent selection of short works, light but helpful commentary in Russian , and superb cover art. The most comprehensive single-volume selection, the only one that contains both Childe Harold and Don Juan complete. Bulky but well worth having.

Nicely introduced and annotated by Jerome McGann. No Don Juan available separately , but complete Childe Harold , all Oriental tales, Manfred , a great variety of shorter poems and even one tragedy in blank verse Sardanapalus. Not to be mistaken with the Wordsworth edition with the Albanian dress portrait on the cover titled The Works of Lord Byron. This is an edition of Byron's complete works, with only brief introduction and without any explanatory notes.

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About this list Started by: Waldstein November Type: Fugitive Pieces by Lord Byron 2 members, 0 reviews. Poems on Various Occasions by Lord Byron 1 member, 0 reviews. Hours of Idleness by Lord Byron 7 members, 0 reviews 4 stars. Poems Original and Translated by Lord Byron 1 member, 0 reviews. The Giaour by Lord Byron 36 members, 0 reviews 3. The Bride of Abydos by Lord Byron 6 members, 0 reviews 2. The Corsair by Lord Byron 59 members, 0 reviews 3. Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte by Lord Byron 1 member, 0 reviews.

Lara by Lord Byron 5 members, 0 reviews 5 stars. Hebrew Melodies by Lord Byron 5 members, 0 reviews. Manfred by George Gordon Byron 76 members, 0 reviews 3. The Lament of Tasso by Lord Byron 2 members, 0 reviews. Beppo by Lord Byron 17 members, 0 reviews 3 stars. Canto IV by Lord Byron 2 members, 0 reviews. Mazeppa by Lord Byron 11 members, 1 review 3 stars. Heaven and Earth by Lord Byron 1 member, 0 reviews. The Vision of Judgment by Lord Byron 4 members, 0 reviews. Werner by Lord Byron 2 members, 0 reviews. The Deformed Transformed by Lord Byron 4 members, 0 reviews 4 stars.