The Great Poets: Lord Byron

Byron wrote an amazing amount of poetry, even though he died young. Penguin made the correction decision to divide his works into two volumes–one for Don Juan and the other for other poems. This volume is bulky (830 pages), but manageable. It has all of Childe Harold and English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, as well as various \”Eastern\” tales (longer narrative poems) and lyrics. The editors are first-rate scholars–Susan Wolfson and Peter Manning. They have chosen works that were influential in the 19th century and are the subject of critical discussion today. My only reservation is that there are virtually no notes, despite the fact that Byron is packed with names of persons no longer well known and geographical places scattered around the Mediterranean. But Google and Wikipedia can fill in the gaps, and the reader is rightly nudged toward reading the poems for the interest of their characters, stories, politics, and descriptive brilliance.

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the quality was trash, pages were missing also got denied a return or a refund !

Good book

I had read Byron\’s poetry in Chinese translation and, through those beautiful verses, had been affected by his profound emotion, After reading many of his masterpieces, I tried to feel and appreciate his poems directly without the aid of translation, and this one was chosen under my prudent consideration.

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