Acknowledgments =xii
Abbreviations and referencing =xiii
Introduction =xiv
1: Life and contexts =1
Introduction =1
Childhood and family background, 1788-1805 =1
Religious heritage =2
Education and reading, 1794-1807 =3
Early writing =4
The Grand Tour and the poetry of place =5
Politics =9
The Murray coterie and the marketing of Byron =10
Amours =11
Marriage, separation and exile =12
Writing poetry in Europe after the defeat of Napoleon =13
Dialogues with Selley =15
Italy, its culture and politics =16
The Pisan circle, The Liberal and the break with Murray =23
The Greek War of Independence =27
Byronism =28
Wasa Byron a Romantic? =29
Further reading =30
2: Works =31
Introduction =31
Hours of Ideleness =31
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers =33
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a Romaunt =34
Cantos I-II =37
Canto III =43
Canto IV =51
The Oriental tales =51
Manfred =59
Don Juan =62
Dramas =78
3: Criticism =84
Byron's contemporaries =84
The Victorians =91
The twentieh century =96
Contemporary criticism =104
4: Chronology =123
Bibilography =131
Index =139
Abbreviations and referencing =xiii
Introduction =xiv
1: Life and contexts =1
Introduction =1
Childhood and family background, 1788-1805 =1
Religious heritage =2
Education and reading, 1794-1807 =3
Early writing =4
The Grand Tour and the poetry of place =5
Politics =9
The Murray coterie and the marketing of Byron =10
Amours =11
Marriage, separation and exile =12
Writing poetry in Europe after the defeat of Napoleon =13
Dialogues with Selley =15
Italy, its culture and politics =16
The Pisan circle, The Liberal and the break with Murray =23
The Greek War of Independence =27
Byronism =28
Wasa Byron a Romantic? =29
Further reading =30
2: Works =31
Introduction =31
Hours of Ideleness =31
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers =33
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a Romaunt =34
Cantos I-II =37
Canto III =43
Canto IV =51
The Oriental tales =51
Manfred =59
Don Juan =62
Dramas =78
3: Criticism =84
Byron's contemporaries =84
The Victorians =91
The twentieh century =96
Contemporary criticism =104
4: Chronology =123
Bibilography =131
Index =139