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George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)

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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, Wntr, 2002.

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

Goldberg, Brian. "Byron, Blake, and Heaven," in Romanticism on the Net, Issue 27 (August 2002).

Goldweber, David E. "Byron, Catholicism, and Don Juan XVII," in 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."

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

Kelsall, Malcolm. A substantial introduction to Byron from the Literary Encyclopedia.

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

Mullan, John (ed.) A review of Lives of the Great Romantics (1996). Review by Michael Laplace-Sinatra in Romanticism on the Net.

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.

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

Saintsbury, George. Older criticism: A discussion of verse form in Byron and other Romantics, in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21).

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

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

Stein, Atara. "Immortals and Vampires and Ghosts, Oh My!: Byronic Heroes in Popular Culture." On the continuing influence of the Byronic hero. In Romantic Circles Praxis Series/Romanticism and Contemporary Culture, Feb. 2002.

Vail, Jeffrey W. A review of 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," in Studies in the Literary Imagination, Fall 2003.

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

Iintroduction, Biography

An extended introduction to Byron from the Poetry Foundation. Biography, publication of English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, The Giaour, The Corsair, Parisina (based on an account by Edward Gibbon), Hebrew Melodies, Manfred, Beppo, relationship with the Shelleys, the Byronic Hero, and more.

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

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

Some older criticism of Byron's works from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes(1907-21). Childe Harold; On Don Juan.

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, butThe Atlantic Monthly from 1857 to 1901 can be searched at this site provided by Cornell Univ. http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/moa_browse.html A patient researcher will find historical articles on Byron and other 19th century authors here.)

"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).

Web sites, Bibliography, Texts

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

Romantic Circles, "a refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture," is an innovative publication on topics in Romanticism. Edited by Neil Fraistat, Steven E. Jones and Carl Stahmer.

Web site for the scholarly journal The Wordworth Circle.

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

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.

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