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George Gordon
Lord Byron
(1788-1824)
Bibliografie en secundaire literatuur
Bibliografie
Bibliografie: Hoofdwerken, chronologisch geordend; Indexen; Verzameld Werk; Brieven en dagboeken; Speeches in het Hogerhuis - Luisterboeken - Secundaire literatuur
Hoofdwerken, chronologisch geordend
Fugitive Pieces (1806)
· On Leaving N--st--d
· To E--
· On the Death of a Young Lady, Cousin to the Author and Very Dear to him
· To D.--
· To --
· To Caroline
· To Maria
· Fragments of School Exercises, from the Prometheus Vinctus of Aeschylus
· Lines in ‘Letters of An Italian Nun and An English Gentleman,’ by J.J. Rousseau, founded on Facts
· On a Change of Masters, At A Great Public School
· Epitaph on A Beloved Friend
· Adrian’s Address to His Soul, When Dying
· To Mary
· ‘When to their airy hall,...’
· To --
· ‘When I hear you express an affection so warm,...’
· On a Distant View of The Village and School of Harrow on the Hill. 1806
· Thoughts Suggested by A College Examination
· To Mary, On Receiving Her Picture
· On the Death of Mr. Fox, The Following Illiberal Impromptu Appeared In The Morning Post
· To A Lady, Who Presented The Author A Lock of Hair, Braided with His Own, And Appointed a Night in December, To Meet Him in the Garden
· To A Beautiful Quaker
· To Julia!
· To Woman
· An Occasional Prologue Delivered By The Author, Previous To The Performance of The Wheel Of Fortune, At A Private Theatre
· To Miss E.P.
· The Tear
· Reply to The Some Verses of J.M.B. Pigot, Esq. On The Cruelty of His Mistress
· Granta, A Medley
· To The Sighing Strephon
· The Cornelian
· To A. --
· As The Author Was Discharging His Pistols in A Garden
· Translation from Catullus. Ad Lesbiam
· Translation of The Epitaph on Virgil and Tibullus, by Domitius Marsus
· Imitation of Tibullus ‘Sulpicia Ad Cerintum.’ Lib. Quart.
· Translation From Catullus. Luctus de Norte Passeris
· Imitated from Catullus. To Anna.
Hours of Idleness (1807)
· On the Death of a Young Lady, cousin to the author, and very dear to hi
· To E--
· To D--
· Epitaph on a Friend
· A Fragment
· On Leaving Newstead Abbey
· Lines written in Letters of an Italian Nun and an English Gentleman; by J. J, Rousseau: founded on Facts
· Answer to the foregoing, addressed to Miss--
· Adrian’ s Address to his Soul when Dying
· Translations from Catullus, Ad Lesbiam
· Translations of the Epitaph of Virgil and Tibulus, by Domitius Marsus
· Imitation of Tibullus, Sulpicia ad Cerinthum
· Translation from Catullus, Lugete Veneres, Cupidinesque, &c.
· Imitated from Catullus, To Ellen
· Translation from Horace, ‘Justum et tenacem’, &c.
· From Anacreon (I wish to tune my quivering lyre)
· From Anacreon (Twas now the hour when Night had driven)
· From the Prometheus Vinctus of Aeschylus
· To Emma
· To M. S. G. (Whene’er I view those lips of thine )
· To Caroline (Think’ st thou I saw thy beauteous eyes)
· To Caroline (When I hear you express an affection so warm)
· To Caroline (Oh! When shall the grave hide forever my sorrows?)
· Stanzas to a Lady, with the Poems of Camoëns
· The First Kiss of Love
· On a Change of Masters at a great Public School
· To the Duke of Dorset
· Fragment, written shortly after the Marriage of Miss Chaworth
· Granta: A Medley
· On a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill
· To M--
· To Woman
· To M. S. G. (When I dream that you love me, you ll surely forgive)
· To Mary, on receiving her Picture
· To Lesbia
· Lines addressed to a Young Lady, who was alarmed at the Sound of a Bullet hissing near her
· Love’ s Last Adieu
· Damaetas
· To Marion
· To a Lady, who presented to the Author a Lock of Hair, braided with his own, and appointed a night in December to meet him in the Garden
· Oscar of Alva: A Tale
· The Episode of Nisus and Euryalus
· Translation from the Medea of Euripides
· Thoughts Suggested by a College Examination
· To a beautiful Quaker
· The Cornelian
· An Occasional Prologue to ‘The Wheel of Fortune’
· On the Death of Mr Fox
· The Tear
· Reply to some Verses of J. M. B. Pigot, Esq.. on the Cruelty of his Mistress
· To the Sighing Strephon
· To Eliza
· Lachin y Gar
· To Romance
· Answer to some Verses sent by a Friend to the Author, complaining that one of his Descriptions was rather too warmly drawn
· Elegy on Newstead Abbey
· Childish Recollections
· Answer to a beautiful Poem, entitled ‘The Common Lot’
· To a Lady who presented the Author with the Velvet Band which bound her Tresses
· Remembrance
· Lines addressed to the Rev. J. T, Becher, on his advising the Author to mix more with Society
· The Death of Calmar and Orla: An Imitation of Macpherson s Ossian
· L’Amitie est l’Amour sans Ailes
· The Prayer of Nature
· To Edward Noel Long, Esq.
· Oh! Had my fate been join’d with thine!
· I would I were a careless Child
· When I roved a young Highlander
· To George, Earl Delawarr
· To the Earl of Clare
· Lines Written beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers: a Satire (1809)
Hints from Horace: Being an Allusion in English Verse, to the Epistle Ad Pisones, De Arte Poetica (1811)
The curse of Minerva (1811)
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812-1818)
· To Iolanthe
· Childe Harold s Pilgrimage
The Waltz: an Apostrophic Hymn (1813, geschreven in 1812)
The Giaour (1813)
The Bride of Abydos: a Turkish Tale (1813)
The Corsair (1814, geschreven in 1813)
Lara (1814)
Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte (1814)
Hebrew Melodies (1815)
· The Harp the Monarch Minstrel Swept
· If that High World
· The Wild Gazelle
· Oh! Weep for Those!
· On Jordan’s Banks
· Jephtha’s Daughter
· Oh! Snatched Away in Beauty s Bloom
· I Saw Thee Weep
· Thy Days are Done
· Song of Saul before his last Battle
· Saul
· All is Vanity, saith the Preacher
· When Coldness Wraps This Suffering Clay
· Vision of Belshazzar
· Sun of the Sleepless!
· Were my Bosom as False as thou Deem st it to be
· Herod’ s Lament for Mariamne
· On the Day of Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus
· By the Rivers of Babylon we sat down and Wept
· The Destruction of Sennacherib
· A Spirit pass d before me. From Job
The Siege of Corinth (1816, het schrijven startte in 1815)
Domestic Pieces (1816)
· A Sketch
· Endorsment to the Deed of Separation. In the April of 1816
· Stanzas to Augusta (When all around grew drear and dark )
· Stanzas to Augusta (Though the Day of my Destiny’ss over )
· Epistle to Augusta (My Sitster! My Sweet Sister! If a Name)
· Lines on Hearing that Lady Byron was Ill
Monody on the Death of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan (1816)
The dream (1816)
The Prisoner of Chillon (1816)
· The Prisoner of Chillon
· Sonnet to Chillon
The Parisina (1816)
The Lament of Tasso (1817)
Manfred (1817, geschreven in 1816-1817)
Beppo: A Venetian Story (1818, geschreven in 1817)
Mazeppa (1819, geschreven in 1818)
Ode on Venice (1819)
The Propehecy of Dante (1819)
· Dedication
· The Prophecy of Dante
The Morgante Maggiore of Pulci (1820) vertaling
Francesca of Rimini (1820) vertaling
Sardanapalus: A Tragedy (1821)
The Two Foscari: An Historical Tragedy (1821)
Cain: A Mystery (1821)
Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice; An Historical Tragedy (1821)
The Vision of Judgement (1822)
Werner: Or, the Inheritance: A Tragedy (1822)
Heaven and Earth: A Mystery (1822, geschreven in 1821)
The Age of Bronze: Or, Carmen Seculare et Annus Haud Mirabilis (1823)
The Blues: A Literary Eclogue (1823, geschreven in 1821)
The Deformed Transformed: A Drama (1824, het schrijven startte in 1821)
The Island; Or, Christian and his Comrades (1824, geschreven in 1823)
Occasional Pieces (1807-1824)
· The Adieu, Written under the Impression that the Author would soon die
· To a Vain Lady
· To Anne
· To the Same (Oh, say not, sweet Anne, that the fates have decreed)
· To the Author of a Sonnet beginning, ‘Sad is my Verse’, you say, ‘And yet no Tear’
· On finding a Fan
· Farewell to the Muse
· To an Oak at Newstead
· On Revisiting Harrow
· Epitaph to John Adams of Southwell, a Carrier, who died of Drunkenness
· To my Son
· Farewell! If ever fondest Prayer
· Bright be the Place of thy Soul
· To a Youthful Friend
· Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup formed from a Skull
· Well! Thou art Happy
· Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog
· To a Lady, on being asked my Reason for quitting England in the Spring
· Remind me not, Remind me not
· There was a Time, I need not Name
· And wilt thou weep when I am low?
· Fill the Goblet Again: A song
· Stanzas to a Lady, on Leaving England
· Lines to Mr Hodgson: Written on Board the Lisbon Packet
· Lines Written in an Album at Malta
· To Florence
· Stanzas Composed during a Thunder-storm
· Stanzas written on passing the Ambracian Gulf
· The Spell is Broke, the Charm is Flown!
· Written after swimming from Sestos to Abydos
· Lines in the Travellers Book at Orchomenus
· Translations of the Nurse s Dole in the Medea of Euripides
· My Epitaph
· Substitute for an Epitaph
· Lines written beneath a Picture
· Translation of the famous Greek War Song
· Translation of the Romaic Song
· On Parting
· Epitaph for Joseph Blackett, Late Poet and Shoemaker
· Farewell to Malta
· To Dives: A Fragment
· On Moore s Last Operatic Farce, or Farcial Opera
· Epistle to a Friend, in answer to some Lines exhorting the Author to be Cheerful, and to ‘Banish care’
· To Thyrza. ‘Without A Stone,’ &c.
· Stanzas (Away, away, ye Notes of Wo)
· Stanzas (One Struggle more, and I am free)
· Euthanasia. ‘When Time,’ &c.
· And thou art dead, as young and fair
· Stanzas (If sometimes in the Haunts of Me)
· On a Cornelian Heart which was broken
· Lines from the French
· Lines to a Lady Weeping
· The Chain I Gave
· Lines written on a Blank Leaf of ‘The Pleasures of Memory’
· Address, Spoken at the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre, October 10, 1812
· Parenthetical Address, by Dr Plagiary
· Verses fund in a Summer-house at Hales Owen
· Remember Thee! Remember Thee!
· To Time
· Translation of a Romaic Love Song
· Stanzas (Thou art not false)
· On Being Asked what was the ‘Origin of Love’
· Stanzas (Remember him whom Passion’s Power)
· On Lord Thurlow’s Poems
· To Lord Thurlow
· To Thomas Moore, Written the Evening before his Visit to Mr Leigh Hunt in Horsemonger Lane Goal
· Impromptu, ‘When, From the Heart Sorrow Sits’
· Sonnet, to Geneva
· Sonnet, to the Same
· From the Portuguese: ‘Tu mi Chamas’
· Another Version
· The Devil’s Drive: An Unfinished Rhapsody
· Windsor Poetics
· Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte
· Stanzas for Music (I speak not, I trace not)
· Address intended to be recited at the Caledonian Meeting
· Fragment of an Epistle to Thomas Moore
· Condolatory Address to Sarah, Countess of Jersey, on the Prince Regent s returning her Pictures to Mrs Mee
· To Belshazzar
· Elegiac Stanzas on the Death of Sir Peter Parker, Bart
· Stanzas for Music (There s not a Joy the World can give)
· Stanzas for Music (There be none of Beauty s Daughters)
· On Napoleon s Escape from Elba
· Ode from the French (We do not curse thee, Waterloo)
· From the French (Must thou go,my glorious Chief?)
· On the Star of The Legion of Honor from the French
· Napoleon s Farewell, from the French
· Endorsement to the Deed of Separation,in the April of 1816
· Darkness
· Churchill s Grave
· A Fragment (Could I remount the river of my years)
· Sonnet to Lake Leman
· Romance muy Dolorosodel Sitio y Toma de Alhama
· A very mournful Ballad on the Siege and Conquest of Alhama
· Sonetto di Vittorelli. Per Monaca
· Translation from Vittorelli, On a Nun
· Stanzas for Music (They say that Hope is Happiness)
· To Thomas Moore (My Bark is on the Shore)
· On the Bust of Helen by Canova
· Song for the Luddites
· To Thomas Moore (What are you doing now?)
· So we ll go no more a roving
· Versicles
· To Mr Murray (To Hook the Reader)
· Epistle from Mr Murray to Dr Polidori
· Epistle to Mr Murray (My dear Mr Murray / You re in a damn d hurry)
· To Mr Murray (Strahan, Tonson, Lintot of the Times )
· On the Birth of John William Rizzo Hoppner
· Stanzas to the Po
· Sonnet to George the Fourth, on the Repeal of Lord Edward Fitzgerald s Forfeiture
· Epigram from the French of Rulhieres
· Stanzas (Could love forever)
· On my Wedding day
· Epitaph for William Pitt
· Epigram (In digging up your Bones, Tom Paine)
· Stanzas (When a Man hath no Freedom to fight for at home)
· Epigram (The World is a Bundle of Hay)
· The Charity Ball
· Epigram on my Wedding Day
· On my Thirty-third Birth Day
· Epigram on the Braziers Company
· Martial, Lib. I.Epist. I.
· Bowles and Campbell
· Epigrams on Lord Castlereagh
· Epitaph on Lord Castlereagh
· John Keats
· The Conquest: A Fragment
· To Mr Murray (For Oxford and for Waldegrave)
· The Irish Avatar
· Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa
· Stanzas to a Hindoo Air
· Impromptu (Beneath Blessington’s Eyes)
· To the Countess of Blessington
· On this Day I complete my Thirty-Sixth Year
Don Juan (1819-1824)
· Don Juan
· Dedication
Indexen
De poëzie van Lord Byron is ook ontsloten via een index op titel en een index op eerste regels.
Voor een overzicht van in het Nederlands vertaalde titels van Lord Byron, zie: Byron in het Nederlands.
Verzameld werk
Er bestaan verschillende versies van de verzamelde poëzie van Lord Byron.
De door Rowland E. Prothero geredigeerde editie in zeven delen is digitaal raadpleegbaar.
I: 1806-1809 (hier te lezen)
II: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (hier te lezen)
III: 1809-1816 (hier te lezen)
IV: 1816-1823 (hier te lezen)
V: 1821-1823 (hier te lezen)
VI: Don Juan (hier te lezen)
VII: Jeux d’Esprit and Minor Poems (hier te lezen)
Brieven en dagboeken
Lord Byron hield een dagboek bij en was een fervent brievenschrijver. Zijn dagboeken en brieven zijn in verschillende versies gepubliceerd.
De door Rowland E. Prothero geredigeerde editie in vijf delen is digitaal raadpleegbaar.
Deel I: (hier te lezen)
Deel II: (hier te lezen)
Deel III: (hier te lezen)
Deel IV: (hier te lezen)
Deel V: (hier te lezen)
Ook Byrons tijdgenoot en biograaf nam brieven en dagboekfragmenten op. Zijn vijfdelige biografie is hieronder opgenomen in de lijst met secundaire literatuur.
Speeches in het Hogerhuis
Lord Byron woonde vijftien keer een vergadering van the House of Lords (het Hogerhuis) bij, hij sprak drie keer:
Op 27 februari 1812 over de 'Frame Work' Bill.
Voor de volledige tekst en het manuscript klink op de links.
Over hetzelfde onderwerp schreef Lord Byron overigens ook een gedicht: Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill
Op 21 april 1812 leverde LordByron een bijdrage aan het debat over de motie die de graaf van indiende met betrekking tot het Committee on the Roman Catholic Claims.
Op 1 juni 1813 sprak Byron tijdens het debat over de Major Cartwright’s Petition.
Byronkenner Peter Cochran voorzag de drie speeches van verklarende aantekeningen.
Luisterboeken
Op LibriVox is een groot deel van het werk van Lord Byron te beluisteren.
Secundaire literatuur
Byron schreef niet alleen veel, er is ook veel over hem geschreven. Hier noemen we met naam en toenaam die titels die de leden van het bestuur van het Nederlands Byron Genootschap het vermelden waard vinden.
Zijn er titels waarvan u vindt dat ze niet in deze lijst mogen ontbreken: suggesties zijn van harte welkom.
In de Nieuwsbrief worden in de rubriek 'Boeksignaleringen/boekbesprekingen' recent verschenen titels over Byron en zijn werk besproken. Op de site vindt u een overzicht van recent verschenen titels in de rubriek Actueel.
Secundaire literatuur in het Engels
Byron the Maker / Anne Fleming
Kibworth : Book Guild Publishing, 2009
ISBN: 9781846243394
I: Byron in England.
II: Byron in Exile
The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Byron / Martin Garrett
Londen : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
ISBN 978-0-230-24541-9
The Late Lord Byron: The posthumous dramas / Doris Langley Moore
Londen : John Murray, 1961
Lord Byron Accounts Rendered / Doris Langley Moore
Londen : John Murray, 1974
ISBN: 9780719530951
Byron: Life and Legend / Fiona MacCarthy
Londen : John Murray, 2002
ISBN: 9780719556210
Byron: a Biography / Leslie A. Marchand
New York : Knopf, 1957
Byron: a Portrait / Leslie A. Marchand
Londen : John Murray, 1971
Letters and Journals of Lord Byron / Leslie A. Marchand
Londen : John Murray, 1973-1994
I: ‘In my hot youth,’ 1798–1810
II: ‘Famous in my time,’ 1810–1812
III: ‘Alas! the love of women,’ 1813–1814
IV: ‘Wedlock’s the devil,’ 1814–1815
V: ‘So late into the night,’ 1816–1817
VI: ‘The flesh is frail,’ 1818–1819
VII: ‘Between two worlds,’ 1820
VIII: ‘Born for opposition,’ 1821
IX: ‘In the wind’s eye,’ 1821–1822
X: ‘A heart for every fate,’ 1822–1823
XI: ‘For freedom’s battle,’ 1823–1824
XII: ‘The trouble of an index,’ Index
Een korte inhoud per deel is hier te lezen.
Life of Lord Byron with his letters and journals / Thomas Moore
Londen : John Murray, 1844 -
I: (hier te lezen)
II: (hier te lezen)
III: (hier te lezen)
IV: (hier te lezen)
V: (hier te lezen)
VI: (hier te lezen)
Nog meer suggesties
Op de website van de The Newstead Abbey Byron Society staat een uitgebreide literatuurlijst, die voornamelijk bestaat uit secundaire literatuur.
Secundaire literatuur in het Nederlands
Lord Byron / Luc Panhuysen
Amsterdam : Mets/Passatempo, 1992
ISBN 90-5330-056-2
Byron en het Byronisme in de Nederlandsche letterkunde / T. Popma
Amsterdam : Paris, 1928
Dit proefschrift is hier digitaal te raadplegen.
Het Byronianisme in Nederland / Ulfert Schults jr.
Utrecht : J.L. Beyers / Kemink, 1929
Deze uitgave is hier te raadplegen.
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Illustraties
Header (v.l.n.r.):
- Lord Byron, maker onbekend (publiek domein, via Wikimedia Commons);
- Lord Byron, ingekleurde tekening (1873), maker onbekend (publiek domein, via Wikimedia Commons);
- Lord Byron in Elizabethaans kostuum (1813), Richard Westall (publiek domein, via Wikimedia Commons);
- Lord Byron in Albanees kostuum (1835), Thomas Phillips (publiek domein, via Wikimedia Commons).