Byron’s Poetry拜伦的诗

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.

The Texts of the Poems
　A Note on the Texts
From Hours of Idleness (1807)
　To M.S.G.
　To a Beautiful Quaker
　To a Lady Who Presented to the Author a Lock of Hair Braided with His Own, and Appointed at a 　Night in December to Meet Him in the Garden
　On a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill, 1806
　I Would I Were a Careless Child
　To Edward Noel Long, Esq.
From Hebrew Melodies (1815)
　She Walks in Beauty
　The Harp the Monarch Minstrel Swept
　My Soul Is Dark
　The Destruction of Sennacherib
Other Lyrics
　Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos
　To Thyrza
　Epistle to Augusta
　Darkness
　So We’ll Go No More A-Roving
　Versicles
　On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Six Year
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
　Canto the First (1812)
　Canto the Third (1816)
　Canto the Fourth (verses 1-10, 164-86) (1818)
　The Giaour (1812)
　The Prisoner of Chillon (1816)
　Manfred (1817)
　The Vision of Judgment (1822)
　Don Juan (1819–24)
　Fragment on the Back of the Ms. of Canto the First
　Dedication
　Canto the First
　Canto the Second (verses CXLI-CCXVI)
　Canto the Fifth
　Canto the Ninth
　Canto the Sixteenth
Byron’s Letter and Journals
　To His Mother, May 1, 1803
　To Francis Hodgson, November 3, 1808
　To William Harness, March 18, 1809
　To Henry Drury, May 3, 1810
　To Francis Hodgson, September 3, 1811
　To John Murray, September 5, 1811
　To Lady Caroline Lamb, May 1, 1812
　From His Journal, November 1813–April 1814
　To Lady Melbourne, January 7, 1815
　To Lady Byron, February 8, 1816
　To John Murray, September 15, 1817
　To Thomas Moore, February 2, 1818
　To John Cam Hobhouse and the Honorable Douglas Kinnaird, January 19, 1819
　To the Honorable Douglas Kinnaird, October 26, 1819
　From His "Detached Thoughts," October 1821 to May 1822
　To the Honorable Augusta Leigh, September 12, 1823
　To Mr. Mayer, English Consul at Prevesa, undated
Criticism
　Bergen Evans, Lord Byron’s Pilgrimage
　John D. Jump, Byron: The Historical Context
　Michael G. Cooke, Byron and the Romantic Lyric
　Francis Berry, The Poet of Childe Harold
　Robert F. Gleckner, The Giaour as Experimental Narrative
　James R. Thompson, Byron’s Plays and Don Juan
　Frank D. McConnell, Byron as Antipoet
　Leslie A. Marchand, Byron in the Twentieth Century
　E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Byron and the Terrestrial Paradise
Images of Byron
　Francis Jeffrey, From the Edinburgh Review (April 1814)
　Lady Caroline Lamb, From Glenarvon (1816)
　Thomas Love Peacock, From Nightmare Abbey (1818)
　Ro　bert Southey, From A Vision of Judgment (1821)
　Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, From Conversations with Eckermann (1822–1832)
　Stendhal, Memories of Lord Byron (1829)
　Thomas Carlyle, From Sartor Resartus (1838)
　Gustave Flaubert, From His Letters (1838 and 1845)
　Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoughts on Modern Literature (1840)
　Harriet Beecher Stowe, From Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1850)
　Matthew Arnold, [Byron] (1881)
　Oscar Wilde, From The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
　George Bernard Shaw, Dedicatory Letter to Man and Superman (1903)
　James Joyce From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
　Virginia Woolf, From A Writer’s Diary (Wednesday, August 7, 1918)
　William Butler Yeats, From A Vision (1922)
　T.E. Lawrence, From Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926)
　Charles Du Bos, Byron and the Need of Fatality (1931)
　Mario Praz, From The Romantic Agony (1933)
　T.S. Eliot, Byron (1937)
　Albert Camus, From The Rebel (1951)
　Vladimir Nabakov, From Lolita (1955)
　W.H. Auden, Byron: The Making of a Comic Poet (1966)
　Angus Wilson, Evil in the English Novel (1967)
　Anthony Lewis, At Last Lord Byron Gets Place in Poet’s Corner in Westminster (1968)
　Chronology
Selected Bibliography