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Great Sonnets (Dover Thrift Editions)

5 reviews
William Shakespeare, William Blake, ...

Dover Publications, 1994

Great intro and survey of sonnets
I needed a little reference with sonnet examples. This fit the bill, and had some savory treats as well. I am a bit time-greedy with my poetry reading, and a sonnet is a fantastic way to get some of the best Shakespeare, Shelley, Longfellow, Hardy, Frost, etc. distilled down to a minute, even reading slowly. It's great to flick open to a page and see some masterful language on a time ...

Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)

7 reviews
George Gordon, Lord Byron

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

the shining star of Romanticism
Lord Byron was perhaps the most dazzling and influential figure of the Romantic movement. He was certainly the most colorful, controversial, and celebrated poet of his time. His poetic style is controlled, yet the sentiments expressed are passionate. He can be sad and despairing in one stanza, then ecstatically happy in the next, and it is these impulsive mood swings which made him no less ...

Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure (Dover Thrift Editions)

2 reviews
Walt Whitman, George 'Lord Byron' Gordon, ...

Dover Publications, 1998

Best book value I know.
It's hard to believe how many of the best poems in English are in this thin little book -- ninety poems for a dollar. I second the action of the Poetry Project in giving it free to lots of people. Buy one for your glove compartment, your office, your study, and your best reader friend!

Don Juan

1 review
Lord George Gordon Byron

Penguin Classics, 2005

Lord Byron is the King of Hearts
The poem is as sexy as the life of its author, who died fighting for Greek national independence and lived with joie de vivre manifested both within his distinguished career as a poet, his sexual trysts, and his eccentricities, which included party trick mug made from a human skull. The book is a monumental achievement, a literary aphrodesiac, a genuine specimen of romance and whit. Byron's ...

Byron: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)

1 review
G. Gordon, Lord Byron

Everyman's Library, 1994

Selections are too narrow and confining
Sixty percent of this volume is occupied by the first , and half the second ,cantos of " Don Juan ". Over two hundred pages of precisely metered 8 line stanzas make for a rather ponderous pocket companion. It gives the book a heavy and incomplete feel. More lyric verse would have greatly improved it's portability and given it greater breadth.Recommended for Byron fans or anyone collecting the ...

Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)

2 reviews
Lord George Gordon Byron

Penguin Classics, 2006

Byron at his best . . .
A legend in his own lifetime, Lord Byron stamped contemporary Western culture with the mark of his dark imagination, and his poetry has lost none of its iconoclastic power today. Without a doubt, this is the finest single-volume edition of Byron currently available. By omitting the rambling satirical romp "Don Juan" (widely available separately), editors Wolfson and Manning leave themselves ...

English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)

5 reviews
William Blake, William Wordsworth, ...

Dover Publications, 1996

GREAT
It has some of the best poems i have ever read in them! there is a need to buy this book if u are hopelessly devoted to love poems!

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems of the Romatic Era: Literary Touchstone Classic
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, ...

Prestwick House, Inc., 2006

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader more fully appreciate the richness and unique vision of these Romantic innovators. When, in 1798, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and other Romantic poems were published in Lyrical Ballads, the book did not immediately capture the public's imagination. Today, however, most modern critics consider the collection extremely important ...

Selected Poetry of Lord Byron (Modern Library Classics)

1 review
George G. Lord Byron

Modern Library, 2002

A Near- Great poet
I'll start off by saying that this is an excellent selection of Byron's poems, from my view, so the rating applies only to Byron's merits as a poet. Byron is somebody who was ALMOST a great poet. He has some really good poems, some poems of true greatness, comparable to his superiors (Keats, Wordsworth, Blake, to limit myself to the Romantics), but he wrote a lot of crap too. Some of these ...

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

1 review
Lord Byron

BiblioBazaar, 2006

A bold, bravura performance; poetry for those who disdain the art
This is an elegantly printed, handy volume to cherish--to be seen with in public. There is none--was none--like Bryon; he strummed all the right lyrical cords of the hearts of men and women. A man of his time--faults and all--but who used the literary art to rise above the common lot of aristocrats. Verse 178 of Canto IV is exerpted too much: "There is a pleasure in the pathless woods/There is ...

Lord Byron: Poems
Lord George Gordon Byron, George Gordon

Highbridge Audio, 1999

Despite a life full of incident, romance, intrigue and travel, Byron poured much of his great energy into his poetry. Captivating, brilliant, daring and dissolute, Byron embodied the spirit of the Romantic movement. All poems included are linked by a commentary that places them in a historical and biographical context.

Don Juan (Modern Library Books, 24)
George Gordon Lord Byron

The Modern Library, 1949

Now, a century and a quarter after Don Juan was written, Lord Byron's glowing narrative poem continues to exercise an undiminished appeal for reader of the widest variety of tastes.

The Entire Poetical Works of Lord Byron, Volumes I to VI, 2008

All six volumes of Lord Byron's poetical works in one book.

The Poetical Works of Lord Byron
Lord Byron

American News Co., 1000

Don Juan (Riverside Editions)

8 reviews
Lord Byron, Leslie Marchand

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972

Missing the Boat
I'm writing this to specifically respond to the remarks made by another reviewer condemning Byron for forced rhymes, self-conscious commentary, and the lack of a good finish. WARNING: This poem is intended to be funny! Byron delighted in using the jangly sounds of feminine rhymes in the most outlandish fashion possible, and his digressions are what truly make this poem enjoyable; that voice is ...

The Great Romantics
Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats Lord Byron

Quality Paperback Book Club, 1993

Includes biographical sketches and index of first lines

The Best of English Poetry

1 review, ..., 2008

Unreadable
This is a nice idea on paper (literally), but on a kindle it's next to unreadable. This book is unformatted plain text with no index or Table of Contents. It's everything a kindle book should not be. Avoid.

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