Byron

ILLUSTRATIONS BY ADAM EVEDon Juan (jew-ən; see below) is a satiric poem by Lord Byron, based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womaniser but as someone easily seduced by women. It is a variation on the epic form. Byron himself called it an "Epic Satire" (Don Juan, c. xiv, st. 99). Byron completed 16 cantos, leaving an unfinished 17th canto before his death in 1824. Byron claimed he had no ideas in his mind as to what would happen in subsequent cantos as he wrote his work.

Illustrations by Adam Eve

Don Juan

Lord Byron's sämmtliche Werke

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818 and is dedicated to "Ianthe". The poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who, disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry, looks for distraction in foreign lands. In a wider sense, it is an expression of the melancholy and disillusionment felt by a generation weary of the wars of the post-Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. The title comes from the term childe, a medieval title for a young man who was a candidate for knighthood.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Select works of lord Byron

The complete works of Lord Byron

George Gordon, Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron

George Gordon Byron Byron, Baron

George Gordon Noël Byron

To be completed in six volumes, this work represents the first comprehensive re-editing of Byron's poetry in over 75 years. The editor's commentaries about the texts and contexts of Byron's works reflect the access to a vast amount of original documents and manuscripts.

The Complete Poetical Works: Volume 1

Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and brilliant, he remains almost as notorious for his life - as a political revolutionary, sexual adventurer and traveller - as he does for his literary work. Yet he produced some of the most daring and exuberant poetry of the Romantic age, from 'To Caroline' and 'To Woman' to the satirical English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, his exotic Eastern tales and the colourful narrative of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, the work that made him famous overnight and gave birth to the idea of the brooding Byronic hero.

Selected Poems

In de letterkunde vertegenwoordigt de figuur Don Juan het idee van de ultieme vrouwenverleider, maar in Lord Byrons satirische epos zijn de rollen omgedraaid: de onschuldige titelheld laat zich verleiden door een reeks vrouwen. De Britse dichter begon in de zomer van 1818 in Venetië aan het werk en een jaar later werden de eerste twee canto's anoniem in Londen gepubliceerd. De inhoud werd als immoreel beschouwd, en misschien juist daarom werd het gedicht ongekend populair. Byron noemde het zelf een 'epische vertelling' zonder een strakke verhaallijn. In navolging van de door hem bewonderde klassieken beloofde hij wel dat er liefde, oorlog en een storm op zee in zouden voorkomen. Tegenwoordig wordt het als zijn meesterwerk beschouwd.

George Gordon Lord Byron

This edition presents the most comprehensive selection of Byron's poetry and prose ever collected in a single volume. The poetry section includes the complete texts of his masterpieces, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan, as well as representative examples of his satires, tales, plays, and short poems. Among the selected prose entries are letters, journal excerpts, essays, and other formal prose. These texts are, in every case, based on the most recent and authoritative editorial work, and incorporate many corrections to both poetry and prose. Byron offers readers the unique opportunity to appreciate the dual literary achievement of one of the romantic period's most flamboyant and most influential artists

Reprint of the original, first published in 1837.

complete in one volume

Byron ́s Works

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Byron

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