This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers readers a generous selection of the poetry upon which Byron's fame depended and his reputation now rests. It presents the poems in the chronological order in which they were published, working in almost every case from their first appearances in print.

From FUGITIVE PIECES (1806) On Leaving Newstead To Maria-------- Epitaph on a Beloved Friend To Mary ['When, to their airy hall, my fathers' voice'] On a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill. 1806 To Mary, On Receiving her Picture The Cornelian From HOURS OF IDLENESS (1807) Lachin Y. Gair To ------- ['Oh! had my Fate been joined with thine'] 'Stanzas to Jessy' Letter to Elizabeth Bridget Pigot, 2 August 1807, London From POEMS ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED Song ['When I rov'd, a young Highlander, o'er the dark heath'] Stanzas ['I would I were a careless child'] From IMITATIONS AND TRANSLATIONS (1809) Inscription on the Monument of a Favourite Dog To *********************** ['Well! thou art happy, and I feel'] A Love Song. To ********* ['Remind me not, remind me not'] To the Same ['And wilt thou weep when I am low?'] Stanzas to ******** on Leaving England Letter to Mrs. Catherine Gordon Byron, Constantinople, 28 June 1810 'An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill' From CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE, A ROMAUNT: AND OTHER POEMS (1812) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, A Romaunt [Cantos I and II] Written in an Album Stanzas ['Chill and mirk is the nightly blast'] Written after swimming from Sestos to Abydos. May 9, 1810 Song. Zoe mou, sas agapo. Athens, 1810 ['Maid of Athens, ere we part'] Written Beneath a Picture To Thyrza ['Without a stone to mark the spot'] To Thyrza ['One struggle more and I am free'] Letter to Lady Caroline Lamb, 29 April 1813 Letter to Annabella Milbanke, 6 September 1813 Letter to Lady Melbourne, 8 October 1813 The Giaour (1813; 7th edition) Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte (1814; 3rd edition) From HEBREW MELODIES (1815) She Walks in Beauty My Soul is Dark Sun of the Sleepless! The Destruction of Sennacherib Letter to Lady Byron, 8 February 1816 From POEMS (1816) Stanzas ['Bright by the place of thy soul'] When We Two Parted Stanzas for Music ['There be none of Beauty's daughters'] Fare Thee Well! Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Third (1816) From BYRON'S ALPINE JOURNAL (17-29 September 1816) From THE PRISONER OF CHILLON AND OTHER POEMS (1816) Stanzas to -------- ['Though the day of my destiny's over'] Darkness Churchill's Grave The Dream Prometheus Letter to Augusta Leigh, 8 September 1816, Villa Diodati Manfred, A Dramatic Poem (1817) Letter to Thomas Moore, 28 January 1817, Venice Letter to Thomas Moore, Venice, 28 February 1817 ['So we'll go no more a-roving'] Letter to John Murray, 15 September 1817, Venice Letter to John Murray, January 8, 1818 ['My dear Mr. Murray'] Beppo, A Venetian Story (1818; 5th edition) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth (1818) Don Juan I-II (1819) Letter to John Cam Hobhouse and Douglas Kinnaird, 19 January 1819, Venice Letter to Augusta Leigh, 17 May 1819, Venice Letter to John Murray, 7 June 1819, Bologna Letter to Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1819, Venice Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley, 26 April 1821, Ravenna Don Juan III-V (1821) The Vision of Judgement (1822) Letter to August Leigh, 12 December 1822, Genoa 'Preface' to The Vision of Judgement (1823) Letter to John Cam Hobhouse, 7 April 1823, Genoa Don Juan VI-VIII (1823) Don Juan IX-XI (1823) From JOURNAL TO CEPHALONIA (19 June and 28 September 1823) Don Juan XII-XIV (1823) Don Juan XV-XVI (1824) POSTHUMOUSLY PUBLISHED POEMS To the Po -- June 1819 Stanzas ['Remember thee--remember thee!'] Messolonghi, January 22, 1824: On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year When I Left Thy Shores, O Naxos ['I speak not--I trace not--I breathe not thy name'] Extract from an Unpublished Poem ['Could I remount the river of my years'] To Augusta ['My sister! my sweet sister! if a name'] Francesca of Rimini ['When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home'] ['Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story'] ['Could Love for ever'] Dedication to Don Juan [I-II] Verses ['I watched thee when the foe was at our side'] Don Juan XVII fragment

Jonathan Sachs is Professor of English at Concordia University, Montreal. He is the author of The Poetics of Decline in British Romanticism (Cambridge, 2018), Romantic Antiquity: Rome in the British Imagination, 1789-1832 (Oxford, 2010), and, with the Multigraph Collective, Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation (Chicago, 2018). He has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the National Humanities Center. Andrew Stauffer is Professor of English at the University of Virginia, where he specializes in Romanticism, book history, and nineteenth-century poetry. He is the author of Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library (Philadelphia, 2021) and Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism (Cambridge, 2005). His research has been supported by grants from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and he has held fellowships from the ACLS, NEH, and the Advanced Research Collaborative at the CUNY Graduate Center. Since 2013, he has served as the President of the Byron Society of America.

Presents Byron's work in a compelling new format emphasizing the works in order of publication Presents a comprehensive selection of Byron's lyric poetry alongside his longer works Offers fully annotated, clearly printed reading editions of the major works Careful attention is given to the printed form of Byron's publications Includes a separate Chronology at the opening of the volume, which provides details of Byron's life, career, and the publication of his works