Byron's Poetry (Norton Critical Edition) (Paperback)

~ Lord George Gordon Byron (Author), Frank D. McConnell (Editor)

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This volume offers a wide-ranging, comprehensive selection of Byron’s poetry and prose. It includes eighteen of his lyrics; Cantos One, Three, and excerpts from Canto Four of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage; two verse romances, The Prisoner of Chillon and The Giaour, the latter newly receiving critical attention for its prophetically disjunctive structure; Manfred; The Vision of Judgment; and Don Juan, presented in long self-contained extracts—the First, Fifth, Ninth, and Sixteenth Cantos complete, with the close of the Second Canto. An unusually rich selection from Byron’s letters and journals accompanies the poems.

The critical essays offer an integrated view of Byron’s achievement as well as analyses of its different facets. Published for the first time is Bergen Evans’s general essay "Lord Byron’s Pilgrimage"; other essays are by John D. Jump, Michael G. Cooke, Francis Berry, Robert F. Gleckner, James R. Thompson, Frank D. McConnell, Leslie A. Marchand, and E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

A special section, "Images of Byron," presents 26 views of Byron as artist and as the epitome of the Romantic hero, ranging from the perspectives of his contemporaries to those of such modern writers as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and Albert Camus.

A Chronology sets forth the main events of Byron’s life, and a Selected Bibliography lists sources for further study. .

About the Author

Frank D. McConnell is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and previously taught at Cornell. He is the author of The Confessional Imagination: A Reading of Wordsworth’s Prelude and The Spoken Seen: Film and the Romantic Imagination.

Product Details

• Paperback: 496 pages
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.; First Edition Thus edition (June 17, 1978)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 039309152X
• ISBN-13: 978-0393091526
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great collection, July 12, 2002

By	Glenn McDorman (Denver) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a neat little collection of some of Byron's poetry and letters, and a few critical articles and reviews of his work. It is a good place to start for anyone just getting interested in Byron's life and work.