This first volume of Byron's poetical works gathers his early poetry, including Hours of Idleness and English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, in a revised edition with notes and illustrations. The poems range from intimate lyrics to satirical verse, showing the young poet's wit, melancholy and romantic energy. Listening offers a vivid introduction to Byron's voice and the Romantic era.
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Byron's Poetical Works a new, revised and enlarged edition, with illustrations Volume 1. edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge. Table of Contents • Preface • Poems on Various Occasions: facsimile of title page and Byron's disclaimer • Bibliographical Note to 'Hours of Idleness' and Other Early Poems ○ facsimiles of title pages of two different editions • Bibliographical Note to English Bards and Scotch Reviewers ○ facsimile of title page of English Bards, including Byron's signature • Hours of Idleness and other Early Poems ○ Fugitive Pieces ■ On Leaving Newstead Abbey ■ To E—— ■ On the Death of a Young Lady, Cousin to the Author, and very dear to Him
■ To D—— ■ To Caroline ■ To Caroline ■ To Emma ■ Fragments of School Exercises: From the Prometheus Vinctus of Æschylus ■ Lines written in "Letters of an Italian Nun and an English Gentleman, by J.J. Rousseau: Founded on Facts" ■ Answer to the Foregoing, Addressed to Miss —— ■ On a Change of Masters at a Great Public School ■ Epitaph on a Beloved Friend ■ Adrian's Address to his Soul when Dying ■ A Fragment ■ To Caroline ■ To Caroline ■ On a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill, 1806 ■ Thoughts Suggested by a College Examination ■ To Mary, on Receiving Her Picture ■ On the Death of Mr. Fox ■ 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 ■ To a Beautiful Quaker ■ To Lesbia! ■ To Woman ■ An Occasional Prologue, Delivered by the Author Previous to the Performance of "The Wheel of Fortune" at a Private Theatre ■ To Eliza ■ The Tear ■ Reply to some Verses of J.M.B. Pigot, Esq., on the Cruelty of his Mistress ■ Granta. A Medley ■ To the Sighing Strephon ■ The Cornelian ■ To M—— ■ Lines Addressed to a Young Lady. [As the Author was discharging his Pistols in a
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