This Everyman's Library Pocket Poets edition contains a full selection of Byron's work, including his lyric verse, narrative verse, poems from Hours of Idleness, "Occasional Pieces," and an index of first lines.
To the nineteenth-century reader, George Gordon Byron (1788-1824), was the archetype of the Romantic literary hero, a figure admired and emulated as much for the revolutionary panache with which he lived his life as the brio and allure of his verse. Our century has seen him more clearly as a poet whose intellectual toughness, satiric gifts, and utter inability to be boring have made him one of the great comic spirits in our literature.

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This Everyman's Library Pocket Poets edition contains a full selection of Byron's work, including his lyric verse, narrative verse, poems from Hours of Idleness, "Occasional Pieces," and an index of first lines.

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To the nineteenth-century reader, George Gordon Byron (1788-1824), was the archetype of the Romantic literary hero, a figure admired and emulated as much for the revolutionary panache with which he lived his life as the brio and allure of his verse. Our century has seen him more clearly as a poet whose intellectual toughness, satiric gifts, and utter inability to be boring have made him one of the great comic spirits in our literature.