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Famously described as 'mad, bad and dangerous to know', Lord Byron was the quintessential romantic poet - flamboyant, tragic and exceptionally gifted.
His life and work have been a source of constant fascination for over two centuries. He composed some of the greatest verse ever written that has enthralled readers for generations. Passionate yet thoughtful, his poetry ranged from historical epics to romantic odes and biting satires.
This collection presents the reader with the start of the literary legend, offering insight into the entirety of his work, from his juvenilia to his final pieces, including such favourites as 'She Walks in Beauty', 'Darkness', and 'To Woman', as well as excerpts from his longer poems 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' and 'Don Juan'.
ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Great Poets Library brings together moving and inspiring verse from some of the greatest poets in history, presented with beautiful new cover designs with graphic motifs.
Contents
A Fragment
On Leaving Newstead Abbey
To Caroline I, II, III & IV
To Woman
The Cornelian
I Would I Were a Careless Child
Lachin Y Gair
Damoetas
To a Lady, On Being Asked My Reason
For Quitting England In The Spring
Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup
Formed from a Skull
Well! Thou Art Happy
When We Two Parted
Stanzas Composed During a Thunderstorm
Lines to Mr. Hodgson
Maid of Athens, Ere We Part
Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos
Epistle to a Friend
Lines Written Beneath a Picture
To Thryza
Childe Harold's Departure (from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I)
One Struggle More
Euthanasia
Solitude (from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto II)
And Thou Art Dead
To Inez (from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I)
Night (from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto II)
An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill
Lines To a Lady Weeping
A Picture of Death (from The Giaour)
Remember Thee! Remember Thee
Journey and Death of Hassan (from The Giaour)
Death of Selim (from The Bride of Abydos, Canto II)
Corsair Life (from The Corsair, Canto I)
Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte
Stanzas for Music 'I Speak Not, I Trace Not, I Breathe Not Thy Name!'
The Vision of Belshazzar
She Walks in Beauty
Greece (from The Corsair, Canto III)
Stanzas for Music 'There's Not a Joy the World Can Give Like That it Takes Away'
The Destruction of Sennacherib
Song of Saul
Oh! Snatch'd Away
Napoleon's Farewell
From the French
Ode on Waterloo
The Prisoner of Chillon
When We Two Parted
Fare Thee Well
Calm from Lake Leman (from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III)
The Dream
Prometheus
Storm in the Alps (from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III)
Darkness
The Assault (from The Siege of Corinth)
Nature the Consoler, I (from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III)
The Poet and the World (from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III)
Ruins to Ruins (from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III)
Epistle to Augusta
Stanzas to Augusta
Lament of Tasso
So We'll Go No More A-Roving
The Sea (from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV)
Epistle from Mr Murray to Dr Polidori
Epistle to Mr Murray
The Coliseum (from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV)
Nature to the Last (from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV)
Dedication (from Don Juan)
The Wreck (from Don Juan)
Mazeppa's Ride (from Mazeppa)
Poetic Commandments (from Don Juan)
Stanzas to the Po
Evening (from Don Juan)
The Isles of Greece (from Don Juan)
John Keats
Stanzas: Could Love for Ever
Stanzas When a Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home
Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa
Invocation from the Spirit of Achilles (from The Deformed Transformed)
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year
Love and Death
