Poetry

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.