Lord Byron

Paul Muldoon

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN: 9780571263769
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature.

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

-- She Walks in Beauty

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• from English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
• The Destruction of Sennacherib
• ‘She walks in beauty’
• Stanzas for Music
• Remember Thee! Remember Thee!
• Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos
• ‘The spell is broke, the charm is flown!’
• To Thomas Moore
• Epigrams
• Churchill’s Grave
• Lines (On Hearing that Lady Byron was Ill)
• Epistle to Augusta
• Epistle from Mr Murray to Dr Polidori
• ‘So, we’ll go no more a roving’
• Beppo
• The Vision of Judgement
• from Don Juan
• On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year
• About the Editor
• Copyright