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George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)

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Introduction & Biography

"Lord Byron (George Gordon)." Poetry Foundation. Ed. Catherine Halley. An extended introduction to Byron, and excerpts from his poems. Biography, publication of English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, The Giaour, The Corsair, Parisina, Hebrew Melodies, Manfred, Beppo, relationship with the Shelleys, the Byronic Hero, and more.

Kelsall, Malcolm. "George Gordon, Lord Byron." 8 Jan., 2001. Literary Encyclopedia. Eds. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott, Janet Todd. An introduction to Byron, from a database that provides signed literary criticism by experts in their field, and is available to individuals for a reasonably-priced subscription.

Marchand, Leslie. Chapter from Marchand's 1970 biography of Byron, covering the years 1808-1809.

A biography of Byron from the Gale Group's Exploring Poetry.

Literary Criticism

Elfenbein, Andrew. "Paranoid Poetics: Byron, Schreber, Freud." Romanticism on the Net 23 (August 2001).

Elfenbein, Andrew. A review of two Byron publications: Andrew Elfenbein's Byron and the Victorians (1995); and Donald A. Low (ed.), Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose (1995). Review by Matthew Scott in Romanticism on the Net.

Garofalo, Daniela. "Political seductions: the show of war in Byron's Sardanapalus." On the play and the Napoleonic wars. Criticism, Winter 2002.

George, Laura. "Reification and the Dandy: Beppo, Byron, and other Queer Things." Romanticism on the Net, special issue on Queer Romanticism, 36-37 (November 2004-February 2005).

Goldberg, Brian. "Byron, Blake, and Heaven" [and William Blake]. Romanticism on the Net 27 (August 2002).

Goldweber, David E. "Byron, Catholicism, and Don Juan XVII." Renascence, Spring 1997.

Gross, Jonathan David. Byron: The Erotic Liberal. Reviewed by G. Todd Davis in Romanticism on the Net, 25 (2002).

Holstad, Scott C. "Byron's Biography: Don Juan and Byron's Existential Angst." Colorado State U Nieve Roja Review

Jones, Christine. "'When this world shall be former': Catastrophism as imaginative theory for the younger Romantics," in Romanticism on the Net, 24 (2001).

LaChance, Charles. Don Juan, "a problem, like all things." Papers on Language and Literature Summer 1998.

McGann, Jerome. Byron and Romanticism (Cambridge UP 2002). Publisher's web site, excerpt available. Reviewed at Romantic Circles.

Parille, Ken. "All the rage: Wordsworth's attack on Byron in Lines Addressed to a Noble Lord," in Papers on Language and Literature Summer 2001.

Rishmawi, G. K. Don Juan, "a problem, like all things." Papers on Language and Literature Summer 1999.

Rosa, George M. "Byron, Mme de Stael, Schlegel, and the religious motif in Armance," in Comparative Literature Fall 1994.

Stabler, Jane. A review of Jane Stabler's Byron, Poetics and History. (Cambridge UP, 2002). Reviewed by Jonathan Sachs, Romanticism on the Net 38-39 (May-August 2005).

Stauffer, Andrew M. On anger as a poetic stance in Byron's work. Romantic Circles.

Stein, Atara. "Immortals and Vampires and Ghosts, Oh My!: Byronic Heroes in Popular Culture." On the continuing influence of the Byronic hero. Romantic Circles (2002).

Vail, Jeffrey W. The Literary Relationship of Lord Byron and Thomas Moore, reviewed by William Brewer in Romanticism on the Net 26 (2002).

Walker, David. "'People's Ancestors are History's Game': Byron's Don Juan and Russian History." Studies in the Literary Imagination (2003).

Whissel, Cynthia. "'Tis more than what is called mobility': Structure and a Development towards Understanding in Byron's Don Juan." Romanticism on the Net.

Web sites, Bibliography, Texts

Romanticism on the Net. Ed. Michael Eberle-Sinatra. An international, peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to British Romantic studies, an impressive scholarly enterprise that has been making essays freely available since 1996.

Romantic Circles. Eds. Neil Fraistat, Steven E. Jones, and Carl Stahmer. "A refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture." An innovative publication on topics in Romanticism.

The Wordworth Circle. Ed. Marilyn Gaull. Information about subscribing.

"A Romantic Natural History." Ed. Ashton Nichols. The relationships between literary works and natural history in the century before Darwin, with articles on Byron and other Romantics.

The International Byron Society contains some brief articles and an annotated bibliography.

Goode, Clement Tyron (ed.) George Gordon, Lord Byron: A Comprehensive, Annotated Research Bibliography of Secondary Materials in English 1973-1994. Reviewed in Romanticism on the Net by Andrew Nicholson.

Performing Byron's Don Juan, a project involving high school students, organized by Professor Jonathan Gross of DePaul University.

A summary of articles about Byron published in The Atlantic Monthly, some as far back as the 1800's, with links to the original articles. (Removed. The Atlantic Monthly from 1857 to 1901 can be searched at at site provided by Cornell U. A patient researcher will find historical articles on Byron and other 19th century authors here.)

Removed Articles

"The Misfortune of Poetry," by Christopher Hitchens, contends that Byron's dramatic life has become inseparable from his work. In a review of Byron: Life and Legend, by Fiona MacCarthy, in the Atlantic Monthly, October 2002 (removed).

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