Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: George Gordon Lord Byron

 

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1850-1899[According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ...Flora Thompson George Gordon Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on pleasure at learning of his works' popularity...George Frederick Cooke George Gordon Lord ByronEnglish Bards and Scotch ReviewersPrint: Book
In extract from journal of George Frederick Cooke in W. Dunlap, Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke: "Read English Bards...George Frederick Cooke George Gordon Lord ByronEnglish Bards and Scotch ReviewersPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 15 September 1814: 'I believe I told you of Larry and Jacquy [ie Lara and Jacqueline, poems b...George Gordon Lord ByronLara; JacquelinePrint: Book
1800-1849'Murray had written to Byron on September 12 [1816] that he had carried the manuscript of the third canto of Childe Ha...William Gifford George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage Canto IIIManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 25 March 1817, on Alpine travels in 1816: 'I kept a journal of the whole for my sister Augusta,...Augusta Leigh George Gordon Lord Byrontravel journalManuscript: Codex
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 25 March 1817, on Alpine travels in 1816: 'I kept a journal of the whole for my sister Augusta,...John Murray George Gordon Lord Byrontravel journalManuscript: Codex
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1817: 'I will tell you something about [The Prisoner of] Chillon. -- A Mr. De Luc ninety...John Andre de Luc George Gordon Lord ByronThe Prisoner of ChillonPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am...George Gordon Lord Byron George Gordon Lord Byron[poems]Unknown
1800-1849'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Ha...Robert White George Gordon Lord ByronChilde HaroldPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 6 July 1821: 'At the particular request of the Countess G[uiccioli] I have promised not to conti...Countess Teresa Guiccioli George Gordon Lord ByronDon Juan (Cantos I and II)Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1821, regarding his MS Memoirs: 'Is there anything in the M.S.S. that could be perso...Douglas Kinnaird George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Leslie A. Marchand notes regarding 1812 letter in which Byron mentions sending a book (possibly Childe Harold's Pilgri...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimageUnknown
1800-1849Letter H. 39 - (12/10/1856) - "I don't know when I read a poem, since a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - wh...John Ruskin George Gordon Lord ByronThe Destruction of SennacheribPrint: Book
1800-1849"... by August [1840] ... [Anne Jemima Clough admits in journal] doing 'one bad thing' (which turns out to be reading ...Anne Jemima Clough George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... Elizabeth Sewell's consumption of 'modern' works in the late 1820s and 1830s, she records [in her autobiography]...Elizabeth Sewell George Gordon Lord ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849'Moore's Lallah Rookh & Byron's Childe Harold canto fourth formed an odd mixture with these speculations. It was fool...Thomas Carlyle George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold (Canto IV)Print: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of...Fanny Kemble George Gordon Lord ByronunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'"Gull" & the Bulbul and a young Galeongee are just so many baits to draw sneers--which however disposed are always be...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronBride of AbydosPrint: Book
1800-1849'"Gull" & the Bulbul and a young Galeongee are just so many baits to draw sneers--which however disposed are always be...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book, Unknown
1800-1849'How you surprise me--write me but one word more [--] it is not true that he [Byron] sent word to you that he was very...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronLines to a Lady WeepingPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I never saw two Women more in love with you than my favourite Lady Hamilton & her sister. They talk of you in a mann...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I think I shall live to see the day--when some beautiful & innocent Lady Byron shall drive to your door [...] I reall...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronThe GiaourUnknown
1800-1849'Many a dull thing goes down by a puff--& all in all is fame Witness the Hebrew Melodies which I have though you did n...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronHebrew MelodiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'"She walks in beauty like the night," for example--if Mr. Twiss had written it how we should have laughed! Now we can...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronHebrew Melodies--"She walks in beauty"Print: Book
1800-1849'At a moment of such deep agony & I may add shame--when utterly disgraced judge Byron what my feelings must be at Murr...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronStanzas to AugustaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the ThirdPrint: Book
1800-1849'[A]nd so you have never heard of Beppo--I think you said so at Devonshire House supper. Now Heaven fail in granting ...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronBeppoPrint: Book
1800-1849'How very very clever I think Beppo--I am quite sure it is his [Byron's]--& still more that Mr. Frere never could have...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronBeppoPrint: Book
1800-1849'I told Murray to tell you that I read his journal with sorrow & perhaps with anger'.Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord Byron[Memoirs]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene...George Eliot [pseud.] George Gordon Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1850-1899'Coming upon a copy of "Don Quixote" in a warder's house, he thought it was "the most wonderful book [he] had ever see...Arthur Symons George Gordon Lord ByronunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many ...Thomas Carlyle George Gordon Lord Byron[Poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'Try, by way of change, Byron?s "Mazeppa", you will be astonished. It is grand and no mistake, and one sees through it...Robert Louis Stevenson George Gordon Lord ByronMazeppaPrint: Book
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Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but...Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood George Gordon Lord ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though ...Anne Isabella Milbanke George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1800-1849'To Caroline Lamb, Queen of the Drawing-Rooms, a very early copy of Childe Harold was lent by Samuel Rogers [...] Inst...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1800-1849'On March 15 [1812] [...] [Anne Isabella Milbanke] dined at Lady Melbourne's [...] [William Lamb] may have been genuin...Anne Isabella Milbanke George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage (cantos I and II)Print: Book
1800-1849'Annabella had [...] written to her aunt [Lady Melbourne; during autumn 1813], after having read the enlarged edition...Anne Isabella Milbanke George Gordon Lord ByronThe GiaourPrint: Book
1800-1849Anne Isabella Milbanke to Lord Byron (1814): 'Your ode to Buonaparte was read in the company which I have just left...Anne Isabella Milbanke George Gordon Lord Byronode to Napoleon BonaparteUnknown
1800-1849'At present [August 1814] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Sismondi's Italian Republics. And she had read Lara.'Anne Isabella Milbanke George Gordon Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849'[John] Murray [Byron's publisher] sent an advance-copy of the new Harold. She [Lady Byron] read the imprecation, supp...Anne Isabella Lady Byron George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto III)Print: Book
1800-1849'Early in July [1819] appeared the first part of Don Juan. "The impression was not so disagreeable as I expected, wrot...Anne Isabella Lady Byron George Gordon Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1800-1849'Moore had owned that the Memoirs [of Byron] were of "such a low pot-house description" that [John Murray] could not h...Thomas Moore George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holla...Lord John Russell George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holla...Lord Holland George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holla...Lord Rancliffe George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece i...Anne Isabella Lady Byron George Gordon Lord ByronThe GiaourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece i...Anne Isabella Lady Byron George Gordon Lord Byron'Fare thee well' (lyric verses)Print: Book
1800-1849'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece i...Anne Isabella Lady Byron George Gordon Lord Byron'the Satire'Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 22 July 1819: 'I think parts of "Don Juan" more ...Harriet Countess Granville George Gordon Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 1 January 1822: 'I think "Cain" most wicked, but ...Granville Leveson Gower George Gordon Lord ByronCainPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 1 January 1822: 'I think "Cain" most wicked, but ...Harriet Countess Granville George Gordon Lord ByronSardanapalusPrint: Book
1800-1849Sunday, 20 November 1825 (first entry): 'I have all my life regretted that I did not keep a regular [journal] [...]...Walter Scott George Gordon Lord ByronmemorandaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Walter Scott to John Murray, 2 July 1812, with enclosed letter of appreciation to Lord Byron: 'I trouble you with a...Walter Scott George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage I and IIPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron (November 1813): 'I am so very anxious to procure the best criticism upon the "Bride [of ...George Gordon Lord ByronThe Bride of AbydosPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron (November 1813): 'I am so very anxious to procure the best criticism upon the "Bride [of ...George Gordon Lord ByronThe GiaourPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any ...Thomas Moore George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any ...George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any ...?Richard Heber George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any ...Isaac Disraeli George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any ...George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any ...William Gifford George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any ...John Wilson Croker George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any ...George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara: 'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and partic...George Gordon Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara: 'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and partic...George Gordon Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara: 'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and partic...George Gordon Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara: 'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and partic...Sir J. Malcolm George Gordon Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara: 'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and partic...George Gordon Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849Walter Scott to John Murray, 6 January 1814: 'I have read Lord Byron's "Bride of Abydos" with great delight, and on...Walter Scott George Gordon Lord ByronThe Bride of AbydosPrint: Book
1800-1849William Blackwood to John Murray, 8 November 1814: 'Since I was a little better [following illness] I have been aga...William Blackwood George Gordon Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849From recollections of John Murray junior: 'Sometimes, though not often, Lord Byron read passages from his poems to ...George Gordon Lord Byron George Gordon Lord ByronpoemsUnknown
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron (December 1815): 'I tore open the packet you sent me, and have found in it a Pearl. It is...John Murray George Gordon Lord ByronThe Siege of Corinth / ParisinaManuscript: Unknown, In hand of Anne Isabella, Lady Byron
1800-1849Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (December 1815): 'I find myself, this morning, so strangely affected by the perusal ...Isaac D'Israeli George Gordon Lord ByronThe Siege of CorinthManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849John Murray to Byron (c. January 1816): 'I enclose Ward's note after reading the "Siege of Corinth." I lent him "Pa...George Gordon Lord ByronThe Siege of CorinthManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849John Murray to Byron (c. January 1816): 'I enclose Ward's note after reading the "Siege of Corinth." I lent him "Pa...George Gordon Lord ByronParisinaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849John Murray to Byron (c. January 1816): 'I enclose Ward's note after reading the "Siege of Corinth." I lent him "Pa...George Gordon Lord ByronParisinaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849John Murray to Byron, 4 January 1816: 'Nothing can be more interestingly framed and more interestingly told than th...John Murray George Gordon Lord ByronParisinaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Dr John Polidori, Byron's secretary, to John Murray, 10 July 1816: 'Since it has given you hopes of entering well i...John Polidori George Gordon Lord ByronThe Prisoner of ChillonManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816, on William Gifford's response to Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV: '...William Gifford George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold IVManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'The "Sketch from Private Life" was one of the most bitter and satirical things Byron had ever written [...] Mr. Murra...Samuel Rogers George Gordon Lord ByronSketch from Private LifeManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'The "Sketch from Private Life" was one of the most bitter and satirical things Byron had ever written [...] Mr. Murra...John Hookham Frere George Gordon Lord ByronSketch from Private LifeManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'The "Sketch from Private Life" was one of the most bitter and satirical things Byron had ever written [...] Mr. Murra...Stratford Canning George Gordon Lord ByronSketch from Private LifeManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816: 'Respecting the "Monody," I extract from a letter which I received this mo...Sir James Mackintosh George Gordon Lord ByronMonody [on Sheridan]Unknown
1800-1849John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816: 'Respecting the "Monody," I extract from a letter which I received this mo...William Gifford George Gordon Lord ByronMonody [on Sheridan]Unknown
1800-1849John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816: 'Respecting the "Monody," I extract from a letter which I received this mo...John Hookham Frere George Gordon Lord ByronMonody [on Sheridan]Unknown
1800-1849John Murray to Byron, 22 January 1817: 'I had a letter from Mr. Ward, to whom, at Paris, I sent the poems, and he i...George Gordon Lord Byronpoems [apparently including Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III]Unknown
1800-1849John Murray to Byron, 22 January 1817: 'I had a letter from Mr. Ward, to whom, at Paris, I sent the poems, and he i...William Gifford George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IIIUnknown
1800-1849John Murray to Byron, 22 January 1817: 'I had a letter from Mr. Ward, to whom, at Paris, I sent the poems, and he i...George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IIIUnknown
1800-1849John Murray to Byron, 22 January 1817: 'I had a letter from Mr. Ward, to whom, at Paris, I sent the poems, and he i...Walter Scott George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IIIUnknown
1800-1849Maria Graham to John Murray (March 1817): 'A thousand thanks, my dear sir, for the loan of the Journal, which I hav...Maria Graham George Gordon Lord Byron'Swiss Journal [letter]'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849John Cam Hobhouse to John Murray, from Venice, 7 December 1817: 'Your new acquisition is a very fine finish to the ...John Cam Hobhouse George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IVManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849John Murray to Byron, 16 June 1818: 'Mr. Frere is at length satisfied that you are the author of "Beppo." He had no...John Hookham Frere George Gordon Lord ByronBeppoUnknown
1800-1849'Lady Caroline Lamb informed [John] Murray [Byron's publisher]: "You cannot think how clever I think 'Don Juan' is, in...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronDon Juan, Cantos I and IIPrint: Book
1800-1849John Cam Hobhouse to John Murray, 22 October 1821, prior to publications of Byron's plays Cain, The Two Foscari, and S...John Cam Hobhouse George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr. Hobhouse wrote that [Sardanapalus] interested him very deeply, though it might be thought fantastical and unnatur...John Cam Hobhouse George Gordon Lord ByronSardanapalusManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Walter Scott to John Murray, regarding Byron's Cain: 'I do not know that his Muse has ever taken so lofty a flight ...Walter Scott George Gordon Lord ByronCain, a MysteryPrint: Book
1800-1849Sharon Turner (lawyer) to John Murray, 31 January 1822: 'Mr. Shadwell, whom I have just seen, has told me that he h...George Gordon Lord ByronCain, a MysteryPrint: Book
1800-1849'During the period that Mr. Moore had been in negotiation with the Longmans and Murray respecting the purchase of th...Lady Holland George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'During the period that Mr. Moore had been in negotiation with the Longmans and Murray respecting the purchase of th...Lord John Russell George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'During the period that Mr. Moore had been in negotiation with the Longmans and Murray respecting the purchase of th...William Gifford George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'During the period that Mr. Moore had been in negotiation with the Longmans and Murray respecting the purchase of th...Mr Luttrell George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'When Murray was about to publish Byron's "Siege of Corinth" and "Parisina," he promised to send the early sheets to...Walter Scott George Gordon Lord ByronThe Siege of CorinthPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'When Murray was about to publish Byron's "Siege of Corinth" and "Parisina," he promised to send the early sheets to...Walter Scott George Gordon Lord ByronParisinaPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Maria Graham to John Murray, 2 November 1817: 'Pray what is the 4th Canto of "Childe Harold" doing? and where is Lo...Maria Graham George Gordon Lord ByronworksPrint: Book
1800-1849Caroline Norton to John Murray, 4 November 1837: 'I have received "Don Juan" and the October Quarterly [Review]. .....Caroline Norton George Gordon Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book

 

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