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Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
The quintessential Romantic, Lord Byron produced some of the most daring poetry of his time, collected here in this revised editionthe only widely available selection to include his own notes on the same page as the poetry.
Paperback, 864 pages
Published
April 25th 2006
by Penguin Classics
(first published 1913)
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Byron's beautiful poems were not as addicting to me as Keats's are. But, as Romantic poetry goes he is one of the best!
There's no way I could appreciate the poems fully without reading up on the poet himself. Well, all I can say is that he was some ladies man (and mans man since he was most likely gay but that is another discussion entirely). He certainly seemed a bit tortured by his emotions...
This book was quite long and I must confess that I did not have the strength ...more
There's no way I could appreciate the poems fully without reading up on the poet himself. Well, all I can say is that he was some ladies man (and mans man since he was most likely gay but that is another discussion entirely). He certainly seemed a bit tortured by his emotions...
This book was quite long and I must confess that I did not have the strength ...more
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It seems appropriate to briefly meditate upon the poetry of Lord Byron on any date including this, his birth date. In particular I turn to his poem 'On this Day I complete my Thirty-Sixth Year'. This poem appeals to me neither for the greatness of its lines nor the acuity of its poetic strains, but for the beauty and sadness of its meditative thought. The opening stanza, for example:
"'Tis time this heart should be unmoved,
Since others it hath ceased to move:
Yet, though I cann...more
"'Tis time this heart should be unmoved,
Since others it hath ceased to move:
Yet, though I cann...more
Thank god for Penguin classics, they always make the weighty stuff seem so manageable for mere mortals. Case in point, Byron. If you are a collector of real books, you know that his entire collection is rather large, so it's nice to have a mass paperback version that can be held in the hand.
Byron was a truly strange dude, compared to his contemporaries. Today, he would be the Kelly Slater of poets, probably surfing Malibu while writing verses in the sand. His death was tragic, which ...more
Byron was a truly strange dude, compared to his contemporaries. Today, he would be the Kelly Slater of poets, probably surfing Malibu while writing verses in the sand. His death was tragic, which ...more
I got this crazy old book of poems and plays and stuff by Byron, so I'm saying Imma say I read this one. Is that cheating? Nah.
Everyone should love Byron! Since third grade we've been writing stupid poetry and it always pissed me off that it didn't rhyme. Stupid haikus. However! In honors ten, you get to write Shakespearean sonnets. Rhyming ftw! After that started me on poetry, I found Byron. I'm GOING to write some damn fine poetry someday, especially with influences like Byron flo...more
Everyone should love Byron! Since third grade we've been writing stupid poetry and it always pissed me off that it didn't rhyme. Stupid haikus. However! In honors ten, you get to write Shakespearean sonnets. Rhyming ftw! After that started me on poetry, I found Byron. I'm GOING to write some damn fine poetry someday, especially with influences like Byron flo...more
Well, so far I've learned that skulls make excellent goblets for wine. Better than the thoughts it contained in life!
Byron may have romanticized about women, but he also hid men in there as well.
I find a lot of it hard to read but I end up reading this in a really broken fashion. I work at a call center where I can't really enjoy it between calls, then at home I'm always gardening, eating, cooking, shopping, or facebooking so I read a poem a day at the most.
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Byron may have romanticized about women, but he also hid men in there as well.
I find a lot of it hard to read but I end up reading this in a really broken fashion. I work at a call center where I can't really enjoy it between calls, then at home I'm always gardening, eating, cooking, shopping, or facebooking so I read a poem a day at the most.
Where I was going wi...more
i love how the "Complete Works" rolls in at a weighty 1100 pages, yet "Selected Poems" only whittles it to the oh-so-manageable 800. solid.
currently reading Bulfinch's Mythology The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes, which references scads of Byron's mythological allusions.
my interest, it is piqued.
currently reading Bulfinch's Mythology The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes, which references scads of Byron's mythological allusions.
my interest, it is piqued.
Lord Byron was, until the age of biological engineering, pretty much the zenith of human development. Lord knows what he could have done with 80mg per diem sustained release Adderall® {dextro}?amphetamine salts or, like, elephant pituitary extracts, or hell even some Centrum and antibiotics instead of therapeutic bleeding, but it's exciting to read him (or about him) and ponder what'll happen when we can start giving people three hearts each, like octopodes.
I remember enjoying this one back in high school (and I wasn't "goth", I swear):
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Let's face it, Byron is a badass--one of the world's first antiheroes. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" is a must-read for any reader of poetry.
The roots of modern fantasy can be found (in part) in these pages. Great stuff and I am glad that I was belatedly exposed to it.
What could possibly compare to the badassery of "When the Moon in on the Wave"? Puts witches to shame.
She Walks In Beauty is one of the most beautiful poems in the world.
by far, my favorite poet.
You either love Byron or you hate him. And it should probably come as no surprise that I absolutely adore him. The original goth-emo boy. Man did it with style, though. His life is fascinating, ridiculous, over the top. Watching his journey through poetry is just amazing, watching how throughly his sorrows and his fantasy life consumes him. Byron's fantasies are beautifully put down through his poetry. It's a shame, but not a surprise, that those fantasies are what ultimately killed him.
Have read all of Byron's Turkish Tales now, as well as _Manfred_, (which I regularly teach) -- also parts of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, the first canto of Don Juan, and the early satire English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Sardanapalus is next on my list, followed by more of CHP. What can I say? It's Byron -- it's terrific stuff.
I loved Byron's poetry, particularly the poetry at the beginning of the book. Some of the longer stanza were hard to get through and I skipped them, but when I have more time I will go back over them. Overall very enchanting words.
world kept revealing byron to me...austen, joyce, movies...so, i figured i needed to find out what this man was about. Glad I did. If you're not a romantic, don't read him.
Julia Boechat Machado
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Lindo.
Lord Byron foi uma paixão da minha adolescência, e ainda não consigo ler um verso dele sem sentir aquela embriaguez que as melhores poesias trazem.
Lord Byron foi uma paixão da minha adolescência, e ainda não consigo ler um verso dele sem sentir aquela embriaguez que as melhores poesias trazem.
A good survey of Byron's works. I still have much more to get through at this point.
*Swoons*. I would totally have run off with Byron, scandal or no.
I am always reading this. Poetry is lifes heartbeat.
Of all the poets, i could never part with my Byron.
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