This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Byron's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by important letters, journals, and conversations - to give the essence of his work and thinking. Byron is regarded today as the ultimate Romantic, whose name has entered the language to describe a man of brooding passion. Although his private life shocked his contemporaries his poetry was immensely popular and influential, especially in Europe. This comprehensive edition includes the complete texts of his two poetic masterpieces Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan, as well as the dramatic poems Manfred and Cain. There are many other shorter poems and part of the satire English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. In addition there is a selection from Byron's inimitable letters, extracts from his journals and conversations, as well as more formal writings. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Byron was a legend in his own lifetime and the dominant influence on the Romantic movement. The most European of the English writers in an age of revolution, Byron was deeply involved in contemporary events, and a passionate supporter of the struggle for Greek independence. Describing himself as `born for opposition', his work was largely directed against what he called the `cant political, cant poetical, and cant moral' of the English and European worlds. He was rocketed to fame by the publication of Childe Harold in 1812, and lionized by society until his departure from England amid a whirlpool of private gossip and newspaper scandal in 1816. His is, in every sense, a poetry of experience, and a Romantic emphasis on the personality of the poet is the hallmark of all his verse. Relishing humour and irony, daring and flamboyant, sardonic yet idealistic, his work encompasses a sweeping range of topics, subjects, and models, embracing the most traditional and the most experimental poetic forms. This selection of the poetical works, chosen from the Oxford Authors critical edition, includes such masterpieces as The Corsair, Manfred, Bebbo, and Don Juan. There are many other less familiar works and shorter lyrics, and Jerome J. McGann's introduction and notes give fascinating insight into Byron's world. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Byron is situated between Milton, whose suffering Satan retained more than a hint of nobility even though God's ways were supposedly justified, and Nietzsche's ubermench who in suffering the laughter of rejection and the pain of alienated righteousness, destroys the old gods and brings in the new. Byron's duality is couched within a will to do and the weakness to do not - always with the hanging question, does either path really matter? This conflict keeps Byron's humanity locked, like Pascal's paradoxical pronouncement, in "a mid-point between nothing and everything." Pope could assert in the 18th century that "Man was created half to rise and half to fall," while Byron had to struggle with if humanity was created at all, and by whom, and for what purpose? The most distilled revelation of this conflicted search for meaning within, and behind, the human condition comes in Byron's confessional narrative Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1819). In this aspiring epic, Byron presents the Visionary's "compulsive search for an ideal and a perfection that do es] not exist in the world of reality...the unquenchable thirst for ideality and the dissatisfaction with reality."

A quintessential depiction of the Byronic hero, Byron's poetic drama Manfred centers on the interior sufferings of its psychologically tortured title character, who is haunted by the death of his forbidden lover. A radically autonomous figure, Manfred rejects help from other human beings, refuses Christian absolution, and disdains dark supernatural entities far more powerful than he is. Despite (or perhaps in part also because of) scandalous associations between the work and Byron's own tumultuous personal life, it was a considerable success from the start-and soon became far more than merely successful; Manfred exerted a powerful shaping force on the Romantic sensibility for decades after Byron's death. The Broadview Anthology of British Literature edition of Manfred is accompanied by a substantial selection of contextual materials including Byron's original draft of the play's conclusion; influences on the poem, such as Paradise Lost, Goethe's Faust, and Vathek; examples of the Byronic hero from the poet's other writings; a selection of contemporary reviews; and an excerpt from Man-Fred, a dramatic parody in which the protagonist is reimagined as a chimney-sweep.

George Gordon Lord Byron: Manfred. "Ein dramatisches Gedicht"

Nach seinem Besuch in der Schweiz und einer Reihe von alpinen Wandertouren schreibt Lord Byron 1817 mit Manfred eines der ganz grossen Werke der Romantik uberhaupt und gleichzeitig - neben dem Frankenstein seiner Freundin Mary Shelley, mit der er sich am Genfer See Gruselgeschichten erzahlte - einen Meilenstein der englischen Schauerliteratur.

Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch

Berliner Ausgabe, 2013

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Erstdruck: Mit The Prisoner of Chillon: London (John Murray) Dezember 1816. Hier nach der Ubers. v. Otto Gildemeister, Berlin: Verlag von G. Reimer, 1877.

Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Lord Byrons Werke. 6 Bande in dreien, ubers. v. Otto Gildemeister, Berlin: Verlag von G. Reimer, 1877.

Herausgeber der Reihe: Michael Holzinger

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George Gordon Lord Byron: Don Juan

Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch

Berliner Ausgabe, 2014, 3. Auflage

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Erstdruck: Erster und Zweiter Gesang, London (John Murray) 1819; Dritter bis Funfter Gesang, London (John Murray) 1821; Sechster bis Vierzehnter Gesang, London (John Hunt) 1823; Funfzehnter und Sechzehnter Gesang, London (John Hunt) 1824. Hier in der Ubers. v. Otto Gildemeister, Berlin: Verlag von G. Reimer, 1877.

Textgrundlage sind die Ausgaben: Lord Byrons Werke. 6 Bande in dreien, ubers. v. Otto Gildemeister, Berlin: Verlag von G. Reimer, 1877.

Herausgeber der Reihe: Michael Holzinger

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