Table of Contents

Note on the text vii

Introduction 1

Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

Poetry

Lyrics 13

She walks in Beauty 13

The destruction of Sennacherib 14

Sonnet on Chillon 14

Prometheus 15

Epistle to Augusta 17

Darkness 21

Verses sent in a letter from Venice to Thomas Moore 23

'So we'll go no more a-roving' 24

Stanzas: 'When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home' 24

On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year 24

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III 27

Beppo, A Venetian Story 77

Mazeppa, A Poem 106

Don Juan, Cantos I-II 133

The Vision of Judgment 259

Prose

Speeches 293

Frame-work Bill 294

Roman Catholic Emancipation 301

Alpine Journal 1816 316

Byron's views on Don Juan, and on poets 331

Biographical notes 339

Critical commentary 341

Notes 370

Selected bibliography 399