Selected Poetry of George Gordon Lord Byron (1788-1824)
from Representative Poetry On-line
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto
from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire
A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services,
University of Toronto Libraries
© 2009, Ian Lancashire for the Department
of English, University of Toronto
Index to poems
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
(She Walks in Beauty, 1-2)
- And Thou art Dead, as Young and Fair
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Third
(excerpt)
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Fourth
(excerpt)
- Darkness
- Dear Doctor, I have Read your Play
- The Destruction of Sennacherib
- Don Juan: Dedication
- Don Juan: Canto the First
(excerpt)
- Don Juan: Canto the Second
(excerpt)
- Don Juan: Canto the Fourth
(excerpt)
- Don Juan: Canto the Eighth
(excerpt)
- Don Juan: Canto the Eleventh
- Don Juan: Canto the Twelfth
(excerpt)
- English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
(excerpt)
- Epistle to Augusta
- Impromptus (Strahan, Tonson, Lintot of the Times)
- Lara: Canto the First
(excerpt)
- Lines to Mr. Hodgson
- Manfred: Incantation
(excerpt)
- On this Day I Complete my Thirty-Sixth Year
- The Prisoner of Chillon
- Prometheus
- She Walks in Beauty
- So We'll Go no More a Roving
- Stanzas for Music
- The Vision of Judgment
(excerpt)
Notes on Life and Works
- McGann, Jerome. “Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
Biographical information
Given name: George Gordon Lord
Family name: Byron
Title: Lord
Birth date: 22 January 1788
Death date: 19 April 1824
Nationality: English
Family relations
father: John Byron
mother: Catherine Byron
wife: Anne Isabella Byron (from 2 January 1815)
sister: Augusta Leigh
daughter: Allegra Byron
daughter: Augusta Ada Byron
Language: English
Education
Bodsy Bowers' school at Aberdeen
Aberdeen Grammar School: 1794 to 1798
Dr. Glennie's school at Dulwich: 1799
Harrow, student of Rev. Joseph Drury: 1801
Trinity College, Cambridge (M.A.): 1805 to 4 July 1808
Literary period: Romantic
Residences
Casa Salucci, Albaro, Genoa to 1823
Queen Street, Aberdeen to 1799
Holles Street, London: 1788
Newstead, Nottingham: 1799
Cambridge: 1805
Malta: 1809
St. James's Street, London: 1811
Geneva: 1816
Venice: 1817 to 1819
Ravenna: 1819
Illnesses
Lameness
Epilepsy: 1824
Cause of death: Malaria
Buried at: Hucknall Torkard church, near Newstead
First RPO edition: 1997
