A Byron Bibliography

Editions:

• The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge(John Murray, 1905)
• The Complete Poetical Works of Byron, editedby Paul E. More (Houghton Mifflin/ The Riverside Press, 1933) - A Reprint of the 1905 edition.
• The Works of Lord Byron, edited by Leslie A Marchand (BRS, 1951)
• *Lord Byron : The Complete Miscellaneous Prose, edited by AndrewNicholson (Oxford English Texts, 1991 - ISBN: 019818543X) - All Byron's miscellaneous prose writings are collected together, including his speeches in the House of Lords, short stories, reviews, critical articles, and Armenian translations, as well as such shorter pieces as memoranda, notes, reminiscences, and marginalia.
• Lord Byron's Cain, edited by Truman Guy Steffan (University of TexasPress, 1968) -Contains 12 Essays and extensive annotations
• Byron's Childe Harold, edited with notes by William J. Rolfe (HoughtonMifflin and Company/The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1898) - Containsextensive notes as well as several issustrations.
• Don Juan, edited by Leslie A. Marchand (Houghton Mifflin Co/RiversideEditions, 1958) - Contains extensive notes as well as the fragment ofCanto XVII that was found among Byron's papers after his death.
• *A Selection of Hebrew Melodies, Ancient and Modern, by Isaac Nathanand Lord Byron, edited by Frederick Burwick and Paul Douglass (The Universityof Alabama Press, 1988) -A facsimile of the edition of 1815-1816 withan extensive introduction including a discussion of Nathan's music andhis relationship with Lord Byron taken from the copy of the original heldin Australia. Nathan emigrated to Australia and his grandson claims tohave composed "Waltzing Matilda".
• Vampires: Two Centuries of Great Vampire Stories, Edited by AlanRyan (Doubleday, 1987 - ISBN 0-385-18562-6) - An anthology of Vampirestories. Includes Byron's 'Fragment of a Novel (1816)' and Dr. John Polidori's'The Vampyre'

Critical Studies:

• Twentieth Century Interpretations of Don Juan, edited by EdwardE. Bostetter (Spectrum Books, 1969) - Contains critical essays by W.H. Auden, Truman Guy Steffan, Virginia Woolf, William Butler Yeats, T.S.Elliot, and others.
• The Politics of Paradise: A Vindication of Byron by Michael Foot(Harper & Row, 1988 - ISBN 0-06-039091-3)

Letters & Journals:

• Byron's Letters and Journals (13 Vol.), edited by Leslie A Marchand
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  (John Murray, 1973-1982; 1994/published in the US by Belknap Harvard):
  1. In My Hot Youth (1798-1810) ISBN 0-7195-2820-8
  2. Famous in My Time (1810-1812) ISBN 0-7195-2821-6
  3. *Alas! The Love of Women (1813-1814)
  4. Wedlock's the Devil (1814-1815) ISBN 0-7197-2994-8
  5. *So Late into the Night (1816-1817)
  6. *The Flesh is Frail (1818-1819)
  7. *Between Two Worlds (1820)
  8. *Born for Opposition (1821)
  9. In the Wind's Eye (1821-1822) ISBN 0-7195-3630-8
  10. *A Heart for Every Fate (1822-1823)
  11. *For Freedom's Battle (1823-1824)
  12. *The Trouble of an Index (Anthology & Index)
  13. *What comes uppermost (Supplementary volume)

Biographies:

• Byron: The Flawed Angel by Phyllis Grosskurth(Houghton Mifflin, 1997 - ISBN 0-395-69379-9) - The First psychoanalyticalbiography of Byron and the first full length life written by a woman.
• *His Very Self And Voice: Collected Conversations of Lord Byron,edited by Ernest J. Jovell, Jr. (MacMillan Company, 1954) -An interestingapproach to Byron's life through a study of his attainments as one of Europe'sgreatest speakers and conversationalists. Based chiefly on the lettersand journals of Mary Shelley, the diary of his best friend, John Cam Hobhouseand a biography of Byron by his last mistress, Countess Guiccioli.
• Byron: a Biography (3 vol.) by Leslie Marchand (Knopf, 1957) - The Best Byron Biography.
• Byron: A Portrait by Leslie Marchand (Omega, 1976 -ISBN 0-860-7738-1) - An update to his 3 volume biography.
• Byron by Andre Maurois (Appleton, 1930)
• *Byron, The Last Journey, April 1823-April 1824 by Harold Nicolson (London, 1924) -  This is a beautifully written study of the awfullast two years of Byron's life. Nicolson was a diplomat, diarist and writerof great skill and distinction. This book is set to be republished by Prion'sLost Treasures series in November 1998.
• Byron in Italy by Peter Quennell (Compass Books, 1957)
• Fantasy, Forgery, and The Byron Legend by James Soderholm (University Press of Kentucky, 1996) - This book presents five case studies in "Byromania"-- the fetishizing of Byron during his lifetime--by the most important literary ladies in his life:  Elizabeth Pigot, Lady Caroline Lamb, Annabella Milbanke, Teresa Guiccioli, and Lady Blessington. A survey of the most englamoured textual fantasies generated by Byron, some of which in turn invent him and his continuing legend.

Related Biographies:

• *Recollections of a Long Life (6 Vol.) by Lord Broughton [John CamHobhouse], Edited by his daughter, Lady Dorchester (London, 1909-10)
• *Lady Noel Byron and the Leighs by Anne Issabella Noel, Lady Byron(Privately printed, 1887)
• *The Narrative of the Honorable John Byron by Admiral John Byron(S. Baker & G. Leigh, 1768)
• *House of Gordon: Gight by J.M. Bulloch (London, 1902) - A History of the Gordon's of Gight.
• *A Journey Through Albania and Other Providences of Turkey in Europeand Asia, to Constantinople, During the Years 1809 and 1810 (2 Vol.)by John Cam Hobhouse (London, 1813)
• *Medora Leigh: A History and Autobiography by Medora Leigh, editedby Charles Mackay (NY, 1870)
• The House of Byron by Violet W. Walker, revised and completed byMargaret J. Howell. Foreword by Lt. Col. Richard Geoffrey Gordon, LordByron, DSO [The 12th Baron Byron]. (Quiller Press, 1988 - ISBN 1-870948-05-X)- A history of the Byron family from 1066-1988. Includes a complete family tree.

Fiction:

• Tarzan Alive by Philip José Farmer (Playboy, 1981 - ISBN0-872-16876-X) - Farmer's biography of John Clayton, Lord Greystoke.Byron is mentioned briefly several times. Most notable is Farmer's assertionthat Lord John Roxton (from Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World)and several pulp heroes, The Shadow, The Spider, and G-8, are all descendedfrom Byron's daughter, Augusta Ada Byron. See also Farmer's Doc Savage:His Apocalyptic Life (Bantam, 1973)
• Lord of the Dead: The Secret History of Byron by Tom Holland (PocketBooks, 1995 - ISBN 0-671-53425-4) - Lord Byron as a vampire! Publishedin Great Britain as The Vampyre.
• The Secret Memoirs of Lord Byron by Christopher Nicole (Lippincott,1978 - ISBN 0-397-01290-X) - A novel written in the form of Byron'slong lost memoirs.
• The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers (The Berkley Publishing Group,1989) - From the back cover: "She is as beautiful as she is evil, aneons-old power that has sparked a hundred myths and now threatens to ravagethe lives of each of her lovers. Lord Byron, Shelley and Keats-the world'sgreatest poets-will find inspiration in her tender embrace... and life-drainingterror in her kiss. For she is immortal, unworldly, unmerciful....... Likea vampire."
• The Missolonghi Manuscript: a novel by Frederic Prokosch (FSG, 1984)- A novel written in the form of Byron's Journal. Takes place, as thetitle suggests, during his stay in Missolonghi.
• *Arcadia by Tom Stoppord -a play which deals with Byron's lifeand the possibility of a lost manuscript.
• "Wall, Stone, Craft" by Walter Jon Williams. Fantasy & ScienceFiction (Oct/Nov 1993, pp. 161-239) -  An alternate realitystory set in a universe where Byron didn't have a club foot. The storyis told from Mary Shelley's point of view,  shows Byron as a war hero(he helped defeat Napoleon!) who's just been created The Marquess of Newstead,and gives a different inspiration for Frankenstein.

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