Selected Poems

By: Byron, George Gordon LordMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Dover Thrift EditionsPublisher: Newburyport Dover Publications 2013Description: Online-Ressource (213 p) Media type: Computermedien Carrier type: Online-RessourceISBN: 9780486277844Genre/Form: Electronic booksAdditional physical formats: No title; Print version: Selected PoemsDDC classification: 821.7 LOC classification: PR4353 2013Online resources: Volltext | Click here to access online
Contents:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Note; Table of Contents; Damætas; 'I Would I Were a Careless Child'; 'When We Two Parted'; Stanzas to a Lady on Leaving England; To Florence; The Girl of Cadiz; 'Adieu, Adieu! My Native Shore'; Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos; 'Maid of Athens, Ere We Part'; 'She Walks in Beauty'; 'Oh! Snatch'd Away in Beauty's Bloom'; The Destruction of Sennacherib; Stanzas for Music; Stanzas for Music; Stanzas for Music; Fare Thee Well; The Prisoner of Chillon; Darkness; Stanzas to Augusta; 'When the Moon Is on the Wave'; 'So We 'll Go No More a Roving'.
'My Boat Is on the Shore''Dear Doctor, I Have Read Your Play'; Beppo; 'The Isles of Greece'; 'When a Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home'; 'Who Kill'd John Keats?'; Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa; The Vision of Judgment; On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year; Alphabetical List of Titles; Alphabetical List of First Lines.
Summary: Richly varied in mood and content, this collection captures the essence of Byron's great poetic achievement. Among the 31 selections: convivial song-like poems, love poems, travel poems, humorous and satiric poems. Included are shorter works such as the famous ""She Walks in Beauty,"" ""Stanzas to Augusta"" and ""So We'll Go No More a Roving,"" as well as longer works: ""The Prisoner of Chillon,"" ""Beppo,"" and ""The Vision of Judgment,"" all unabridged. Also here are lyrics excerpted from Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and the play Manfred. Explanatory footnotes
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821.008 .W141 2005 The Oxford anthology of English poetry / 821.1 .C496 1951 The Canterbury tales / 821.3 .S527 2002 The complete sonnets and poems / 821.7 .B966 1993 Selected Poems 821.7 .C693 1997 Selected poetry / 821.910 .H217 2014 The Oxford companion to modern poetry / 821.912 .E429 1954 Selected poems /

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Title Page; Copyright Page; Note; Table of Contents; Damætas; 'I Would I Were a Careless Child'; 'When We Two Parted'; Stanzas to a Lady on Leaving England; To Florence; The Girl of Cadiz; 'Adieu, Adieu! My Native Shore'; Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos; 'Maid of Athens, Ere We Part'; 'She Walks in Beauty'; 'Oh! Snatch'd Away in Beauty's Bloom'; The Destruction of Sennacherib; Stanzas for Music; Stanzas for Music; Stanzas for Music; Fare Thee Well; The Prisoner of Chillon; Darkness; Stanzas to Augusta; 'When the Moon Is on the Wave'; 'So We 'll Go No More a Roving'.

'My Boat Is on the Shore''Dear Doctor, I Have Read Your Play'; Beppo; 'The Isles of Greece'; 'When a Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home'; 'Who Kill'd John Keats?'; Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa; The Vision of Judgment; On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year; Alphabetical List of Titles; Alphabetical List of First Lines.

Richly varied in mood and content, this collection captures the essence of Byron's great poetic achievement. Among the 31 selections: convivial song-like poems, love poems, travel poems, humorous and satiric poems. Included are shorter works such as the famous ""She Walks in Beauty,"" ""Stanzas to Augusta"" and ""So We'll Go No More a Roving,"" as well as longer works: ""The Prisoner of Chillon,"" ""Beppo,"" and ""The Vision of Judgment,"" all unabridged. Also here are lyrics excerpted from Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and the play Manfred. Explanatory footnotes