Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Lord Byron

 

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1800-1849'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intim...Princess Charlotte George Gordon, Lord Byron[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'Extract from Byron's Monody on the death of Sheridan' [transcript of text]Emma Bowly George Gordon, Lord ByronMonody on the Death of the Right Honourable R.B. SheridanUnknown
1800-1849'Sonnet on Chillon' [transcript of text]Emma Bowly Lord George Gordon Byron'Sonnet on Chillon'Unknown
1850-1899'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes George Gordon Noel, Lord ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shakespeare incited his appetitie for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they mor...Joseph Barker George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'De Quincey ... in a letter to the Wordsworths of 27 May 1809 said that he had read ... [Byron, English Bards and Scot...Thomas De Quincey George Gordon, Lord ByronEnglish Bards and Scotch ReviewersPrint: Book
1800-1849'On 17-18 May 1812 W[ordsworth] wrote to M[ary] W[ordsworth]: "Yesterday I dined alone with Lady B. - and we read Lord...William Wordsworth George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage I and IIPrint: Book
1800-1849'On 17-18 May 1812 W[ordsworth] wrote to M[ary] W[ordsworth]: "Yesterday I dined alone with Lady B. - and we read Lord...Lady Beaumont George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage I and IIPrint: Book
1800-1849'Writing to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] on 19 Aug. 1814, W[ordsworth] describes an incident in a Perth bookshop: "I stepped...William Wordsworth George Gordon, Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1850-1899'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...Chester Armstrong George Gordon, Lord ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to William J. Bankes, on having received 'two Critical opinions, from Edinburgh' (of Lord Woodhouselee and Henry...Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee George Gordon, Lord ByronPoems on Various OccasionsPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to William J. Bankes, on having received 'two Critical opinions, from Edinburgh' (of Lord Woodhouselee and Henry...Henry Mackenzie George Gordon, Lord ByronPoems on Various OccasionsPrint: Book
1800-1849In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'I never in my life read a composition [of his own], save to Hodg...George Gordon, Lord Byron George Gordon, Lord ByronunknownUnknown
1850-1899[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works...Joseph Keating George Gordon, Lord ByronPrint: Book
1900-1945'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ...George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown, poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849'finished my morning's work a few minutes before 2. Made an extract or 2 from Lord Byron's Childe Harold + the lyrics ...Anne Lister George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde HaroldPrint: Book
1850-1899'[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Au...George Moore George Gordon, Lord ByronunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he cal...Lloyd George George Gordon, Lord ByronunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I do not like Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch reviewers, though, as my father says, the lines are very strong a...Maria Edgeworth George Gordon, Lord ByronEnglish Bards and Scotch Reviwers: a satirePrint: Book
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?But Lord Byron ? he must write with great ease and rapidity.? ?That I don?t know. I could never finish the perusal...Charles Maturin George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1850-1899'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ...Joseph Keating George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to...Ben Brierley George Gordon, Lord ByronPrint: Book
1900-1945'There were few books at home when [Harry Burton] was a boy, but one of them was "Don Juan". He read it before he was ...Harry Burton George Gordon, Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w...George Howell George Gordon, Lord ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849'John Smith, Bob Hankinson, and I, went over the "Hebrew Melodies" together'.Thomas Babington Macaulay George Gordon, Lord ByronHebrew MelodiesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e...Allen Clarke George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their mo...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] George Gordon, Lord Byron[poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe...William Henry Davies George Gordon, Lord ByronPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe...[Dave, friend of W.H. Davies] anon George Gordon, Lord ByronPrint: Book
1900-1945Leon Edel quotes John Buchan, in "Memory Hold-the-Door" (1940), pp.151-52: 'an aunt of my wife's [Lady Lovelace], ...Henry James and John BuchanGeorge Gordon, Lord Byronletters to Lady Melbourne (copies)Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's...Thomas Carter George Gordon, Lord Byron[works]Print: Book
1800-1849Henry Chorley, in Memorials of Mrs Hemans (1836): 'after having heard those beautiful stanzas addressed to his sister ...Felicia Hemans George Gordon, Lord ByronStanzas ("My Sister -- my sweet Sister")Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Childe Harold I have read your Book & cannot refrain from telling you that I think it & all those whom I live with &...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1800-1849'"perchance my dog will whine in vain "Till fed my stranger hands-- "But long e'er I come back again "he'd tear me ...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1800-1849'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1800-1849'she asked [Byron] to recommend her some books of modern history. At present she was reading Sismondi's "Italian Repub...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke George Gordon, Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849'Early in July appeared the first part of "Don Juan". "The impression was not so disagreeable as I expected", wrote An...Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron George Gordon, Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', th...Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron George Gordon, Lord ByronThe GiaourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', th...Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron George Gordon, Lord ByronFare Thee WellPrint: Book
1800-1849'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', th...Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron George Gordon, Lord Byron[a Satire - on Annabella?]Print: Book
1800-1849'Mary read to me some passages from Ld Byron's poems. I was not before so clearly aware [of] how much of the colouring...Mary Godwin George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Strangers by Lord Byron'; Text = 'When coldness wraps this suffer...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine George Gordon, Lord ByronWhen coldness wraps this suffering clayPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine/ A sad, sour,...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [George Gordon, Lord] [Byron][Don Juan - Canto the Third]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I read his own [Byron's] memoirs before Murray burnt them.'Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon, Lord Byron[Memoirs]Unknown
1800-1849'Dear Lord Byron? I must thank you for yr. Poem you have sent me I [this word is illegible] not say how good I think ...Lady Sarah Jersey George Gordon, Lord Byron[poem]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I received the Books, & among them the Bride of Abydos. It is very, very beautiful.'George Canning George Gordon, Lord ByronThe Bride of AbydosPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'She was shocked by some of the hero's adventures but more often thrilled. Laura learned quite a lot by reading "Don J...Flora Thompson George Gordon, Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1800-1849'On a Gold Heart Which Was broken' 'Ill fated heart and can it be/...' [transcript changes the gender of the speaker]Carey/Maingay groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronOn A Cornelian Heart Which Was BrokenPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'On the Destruction of Semnacherib/ By Byron'Julia George Gordon, Lord ByronThe Destruction of SennacheribPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Modern Greece/ From the Bride of Abydos' 'Know ye the land where the cypress & myrtle/...' [canto one, stanza one (...Carey/Maingay groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronThe Bride of Abydos OR 'Modern Greece'Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'To a Lady Weeping "Weep, daughter of a royal line..."'George or Edward Carey George Gordon, Lord Byron'To A Lady Weeping'Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'From Byron' 'The Chain I Gave Was Fair to View.../'Julia George Gordon, Lord ByronFrom the Turkish [The Chain I Gave]Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Written Beneath a Picture' 'Dear object of defeated care!/...' 'R.G.C. 1835''R.G.C.' George Gordon, Lord ByronLines Written Beneath A PicturePrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'On being asked what was the "Origin of Love"' 'The "Origin of Love! - ah why/That question cruel ask of me/...' [mino...Edward or George Carey George Gordon, Lord ByronOn Being Asked What Was the "Origin of Love"Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'A Fragment' 'When to their airy hall... [printed first line 'When, to their...] 'Byron'Carey/Maingay groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronA FragmentPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Friendship' 'O yes I will own we were dear to one another/...' [Oh! Yes, I will own we were dear to each other/...' -...Margaret Maingay [?] George Gordon, Lord ByronTo [George, Earl Delawarr]Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Farewell' 'Farewell! If ever fondest prayer/...' [Some differences in punctuation from Byron's text]Carey/Maingay groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronFarewell! If Ever Fondest PrayerPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'The Tear' 'When Friendship or Love' [Epigraph from Gray, not transcribed]Carey/Maingay groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronThe TearPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Impromptu, in Reply to a Friend' 'When from the heart where sorrow sits/...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage OR 'Impromptu, In ReplyUnknown
1800-1849'On A Cornelian Heart Which Was Broken' [transcript entire poem]Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron'On A Cornelian Heart' OR Childe Harold's PilgrimaUnknown
1800-1849'On A Cornelian Heart Which Was Broken' [transcript entire poem]Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage OR 'Written Beneath...'Unknown
1800-1849'From the Portuguese' 'In moments to delight devoted/...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimageUnknown
1800-1849'On Parting' 'The kiss, dear maid! Thy lip has left, /...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage OR 'On Parting'Unknown
1800-1849'On being asked what was the "Origin of Love"' 'The "Origin of Love!" - Ah Why That Cruel question ask of Me.'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronOn Being Asked What Was The "Origin of Love"Unknown
1800-1849'Sonnet on Chillon "Eternal spirit of the Chainless Mind!, ..."'Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronSonnet on ChillonUnknown
1800-1849'Why should my anxious heart repine, ... Byron-1807' [three stanzas first published in Moore's 'Life', 1830]Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronL'Amitie Est L'Amour Sans AilesUnknown
1800-1849'It is the voice of the years that are gone! They roll before me with all their deeds. Ossian! Newstead! Fast falling...Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronElegy on Newstead AbbeyUnknown
1800-1849'If that high World If that high World which has beyond...'Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron'If That High World' OR Hebrew MelodiesUnknown
1800-1849'On leaving Newstead Abbey ... >From Newstead Sept 9th 1830'Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronElegy on NewsteadUnknown
1800-1849'I would I were a careless child, ...' 'Early Poems'Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronStanzasUnknown
1800-1849'Oh! Snatched away in Beauty's bloom...'Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronOh! Snatched Away In Beauty's BloomUnknown
1800-1849Extract from Byron's Monody on the Death of SheridanBowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronMonody on the Death of the Right Hon. R.B. SheridanUnknown
1800-1849'Voice of the Second Spirit' 'Mont Blanc is the Monarch of mountains, ...' 'Manfred'Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronManfred: A Dramatic PoemUnknown
1800-1849'Sun of the Sleepless' 'Sun of the Sleepless! Melancholy Star!...'Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronSun of the SleeplessUnknown
1800-1849'When coldness wraps this suffering clay ... Hebrew Melodies'Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronHebrew MelodiesUnknown
1800-1849'Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll! ... And laid my hand upon thy mane - as I do here. 4th canto'Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold, Canto IVUnknown
1800-1849'Sometime about the twenty first year of my age I perceived the great advantage possessed by those who received a clas...Robert White George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold: A Romaunt, Canto IVPrint: Book
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'for each there had been no poet later than Byron...'Philip and Emily GosseGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron[poems]Print: Book
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1900-1945
'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil...Edwin Muir George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1900-1945'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two...Norman Nicholson George Gordon, Lord Byron[poems extracts]Print: Book
1800-1849'Do not be angry with me for beginning another Letter to you. I have read the Corsair, mended my petticoat, & have no...Jane Austen George Gordon, Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849'During Mr Montgomery's stay he read books from my library, and on his returning Byron's Doge of Venice.'James Montgomery George Gordon, Lord ByronDoge of VenicePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: ...Elizabeth Sewell George Gordon, Lord ByronpoetryPrint: Book
1800-1849[italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibb...Mary Godwin and Percy ShelleyGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronLara: a talePrint: Book
1800-1849[italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibb...Percy Bysshe Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronLara: a talePrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ...Mary Godwin George Gordon, Lord ByronThe Siege of Corinth: a poem; Parisina: a poemPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ...Mary Godwin George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage: a RomauntPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ...Percy Bysshe Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage: A RomauntPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ...Percy Bysshe Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronThe Siege of Corinth: a poem; Parisina: a poemPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 3rd Canto of Childe Harold'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am melancholy with reading the 3rd Canto of Childe Harold. Do you not remember, Shelley when you first read it to m...Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1800-1849'read Sterne & the 2nd Canto of Childe Harold'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Giaur[sic] & the Corsair'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronGiaour, The: a fragment of a Turkish talePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Giaur[sic] & the Corsair'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronCorsair, The: a talePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Lara'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronLara: a talePrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Jany. 3rd. [...] Read Don Juan. Read the Life of Plutarch.'Claire Clairmont George Gordon, Lord ByronDon Juan [Cantos I and II]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Prisoner of Chillon &c. to Mrs G'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronPrisoner of Chillon, The, and other poemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. calls on Lord B - He [presumably Shelley] reads the 4th Canto of Childe Harold'Percy Bysshe Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage, Volume IVPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 4th Canto'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage, Volume IVPrint: Book
1800-1849'Transcribe Mazeppa'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronMazeppaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Finish transcribing Mazeppa - Copy the ode'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord Byron'Ode on Venice'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronBeppo: a Venetian storyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sleep at Bologna - S. reads 4th Canto aloud to me - read Montaigne'Percy Bysshe Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IVPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads D.[on] Juan aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Don Juan'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - work - Read Mazeppa - S. reads Sophocles - & St Mathew [sic] aloud to me - Translate S.[pinoza]'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronMazeppaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Don Juan'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentione...Percy Bysshe Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Cain'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronCainPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Vision of Judgement'.Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronVision of Judgment, TheManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'S. reads L.[ord] B.[yron]'s - Heaven and Earth in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronHeaven and EarthManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'dine with Jane - Read Albe's tragedy to her'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronWernerManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'read Sardanapalus'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronSardanapalus, a TragedyUnknown
1800-1849'Read the Two Foscari'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronTwo Foscari, TheUnknown
1800-1849'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies we...Elizabeth Missing Sewell George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am sorry to mention that [Lord Byron's] last poem upon "The Decadence of Bonaparte", is worthy neither his pen nor ...Princess Caroline Princess of Wales George Gordon, Lord Byron'Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte'Unknown
1800-1849'Your descriptions of your travels do indeed set my feet moving, and my heart longing to see all you have seen; and th...Susan Ferrier George Gordon, Lord ByronCorsair, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'As you like sometimes high treason, I send you a copy of the verses written by Lord Byron on the discovery of the bod...Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales George Gordon, Lord Byron[possibly lines from 'The Corsair' =- 'Weep, Daughter of a Royal Line']Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'if you have no [italics] odd things [end italics] lying about you which I daresay you do not lack there are many piec...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord Byron[juvenile poems]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and ...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and ...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord ByronCorsair, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'The "Melodies" bear a few striking marks of the master's hand but there are some of them feeble and I think they must...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord ByronHebrew MelodiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'After an absence of 9 months in Yarrow I returned here the night before last when for the first time I found a copy o...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord Byron'Siege of Corinth, The'Print: Book
1800-1849'After an absence of 9 months in Yarrow I returned here the night before last when for the first time I found a copy o...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord Byron'Parisina'Print: Book
1800-1849'I am highly dilighted [sic] with your two last little poems. They breathe a vein of poetry which you never once touch...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord Byron'Parisina' and 'The Siege of Corinth'Print: Book
1800-1849'I have had a great treat this morning in perusing L. Byron's 3d Canto - Considered as a continuation of Child-Harold ...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage (canto III)Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I have got the fourth canto to day - It is a glorious morsel!'James Hogg George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage (canto IV)Print: Book
1800-1849'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryd...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Gordon, Lord ByronPrint: Book
1900-1945'I went yesterday to Montreux and then changed and went in a funny funicular to a place called Gstaadt where we arrive...Harold Nicolson George Gordon, Lord ByronunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confid...Anne Romilly George Gordon, Lord ByronFare thee wellPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confid...Anne Romilly George Gordon, Lord ByronSketch from Private Life, APrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confid...Samuel Romilly George Gordon, Lord ByronSketch from Private Life, APrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confid...Samuel Romilly George Gordon, Lord ByronFare thee wellPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanl...Richard Lovell Edgeworth George Gordon, Lord ByronFare thee wellPrint: Unknown, either in newspaper or version circulated in society
1800-1849'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanl...Richard Lovell Edgeworth George Gordon, Lord ByronSketch from Private Life, APrint: Unknown, either in newspaper or version circulated in society
1800-1849'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? He...Anne Romilly George Gordon, Lord ByronManfredPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? He...Anne Romilly George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde HaroldPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? He...Anne Romilly George Gordon, Lord ByronDarknessPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? He...Samuel Romilly George Gordon, Lord Byron[poems]Print: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was howeve...John Buckley Castieau George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage (Eve of Waterloo)Print: Book
1850-1899'Did not go out but read a little Byron & then played Bezique with Polly till it was bed time'John Buckley Castieau George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The e...John Buckley Castieau George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Byron was a great genius. 'Don' Juan is a terrific work. But there is scarcely a page of it which does not show tha...Arnold Bennett Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1900-1945 I have a wonderful miniature edition of Byron’s 'Don Juan', illustrated, for you, with a staggering Victorian prefa...Arnold Bennett Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1800-1849'I staid in and read Byron'John Ruskin George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
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From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“On a Cornelian Heart that was broken" - Lord ...Catherine Austen George Gordon, Lord Byron'On a Cornelian Heart which was broken'Unknown
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From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"To my Daughter" - Lord Byron'.Catherine Austen George Gordon, Lord Byron'To My Daughter'Unknown
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From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“Bright be the place of thy Soul” Lord Byron...Catherine Austen George Gordon, Lord Byron'Bright be the place of thy soul'Unknown
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From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"If that high World" - Byron', beginning 'If tha...Catherine Austen George Gordon, Lord Byron'If that high world'Unknown
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From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"To Mary" - Byron', beginning 'RACK'D by the fla...Catherine Austen George Gordon, Lord ByronTo MaryUnknown
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From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines lines from the "Bride of Abydos" [Byr...Catherine Austen George Gordon, Lord ByronThe Bridge of AbydosUnknown
1900-1945'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel...Celia Burrow George Gordon, Lord ByronMazeppaPrint: Book
1900-1945'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel...Alfred Rawlings George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1900-1945'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel...Reginald Robson George Gordon, Lord Byron'Isles of Greece, The'Print: Book
1900-1945'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel...Francis Pollard George Gordon, Lord ByronGiaour, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel...Reginald Robson George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book

 

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