The Works of Lord Byron
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- In chronological order as originally published. Few of the most important modern collected editions are included in the end.
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- Waldstein: 1807-06/07. 39 poems = 19 from (1) + 8 from (2) + 12 hitherto unpublished. 1st officially published collection, “By George Gordon, Lord Byron, a Minor.” Preface by LB.
"The collection of minor poems entitled Hours of Idleness, which has been included in every edition of Byron's Poetical Works issued by John Murray since 1831, consists of seventy pieces, being the aggregate of the poems published in the three issues [1, 2, 4], together with five other poems of the same period derived from other sources." Coleridge (#38), vol. 1, p. xii.
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- Waldstein: 1808. 38 poems = 17 from (1) + 4 from (2) + 12 from (3) + 5 previously unpublished. 1808, 2nd edn.
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- Waldstein: 1809-03, 696 lines, preface & footnotes by LB; 1809-10, 2nd edn., 1050 lines, preface expanded, postscript added; 1810, 3rd edn.; 1811, 5th edn., 1070 lines (final version). 1st satire.
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- Waldstein: 1812-03-10, Cantos I & II + 14 poems; 1812-04-17, 2nd edn., 6 poems added; 1814-02-01, 7th edn., 10 stanzas to Canto II and 14 poems added (34 overall). Original preface, extensive notes and appendix by LB. “Addition to the Preface” for the 4th edn. (1812-09-14). 1815, 9th edn., 30 poems.
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- Waldstein: 1813-06-05, 685 lines; 1813-11-27, 7th edn., 1334 lines (final version). 1814, 10th edn. Advertisement and notes by LB.
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- Waldstein: 1813-11-29, Cantos I+II = 483+724 lines; 1813, 2nd edn., six lines added to Canto II. 1813, 4th edn., 2 lines added (662-3); 1813, 5th edn (483+732 lines).
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- Waldstein: 1814-02-01, 1859 lines (wrongly given 1863); 1814, 2nd edn., notes, 6 poems added; 1814, 7th edn., 4 lines to stanza xi, unnumbered note to line 226; 1815, 9th edn., long note to the last line.
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- Waldstein: 1814-04-18, 15 stanzas; 1815, 10th edn., 16 stanzas.
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- Waldstein: 1814-08-06. Published anonymously. Advertisement. Together with Jacqueline, a poem not by LB and an "insipid pastoral" according to E. C. Coleridge (#37), vol. 3, p. 320.
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- Waldstein: 1816-02-07. Narrative poems. 1034+586 lines. Advertisement/preface and notes by LB.
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- Waldstein: 1816-12-05. Together with "Sonnet to Chillon", 7 other poems and notes by LB.
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- Waldstein: 1817-06-16. A Dramatic Poem: 3 acts, 10 scenes, 1338 lines. Never intended for the stage, yet produced in London after LB's death (Oct 1834).
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- Waldstein: 1817-07-17. Prefatory note by LB.
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- Waldstein: 1818-02-18, 95 stanzas; 1818-05-04, 5th edn., 99 stanzas. A Venetian Story.
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- Waldstein: 1819-07-15. Written in Venice: Canto I begun 1818-09-06 and finished 1818-11-01; Canto II begun 1818-12-13 and finished 1819-01-20. A New Edition, 1819.
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- Waldstein: 1819-06-28. Narrative poem (869 lines). Advertisement in French from Voltaire. Together with "Ode [to Venice]" (160 lines) and "A Fragment" (in prose).
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- Waldstein: 1819, 2 vols., 1st publication of the complete poem. 4 cantos. 4538 lines = 836+926+1102+1674. T. Nelson, 1862.
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- Waldstein: 1821-04-21. Original preface and notes by LB. Lengthy appendix with sources. 1st and longest (5 acts, 12 scenes, 3493 lines) historical drama in blank verse, followed by another four in the next year or so.
"The Prophecy of Dante" is a poem of 4 cantos and 670 lines.
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- Waldstein: 1821-08-08. Cantos III and IV written 1819-11, copied 1820-01. Canto V began 1820-10-16 and finished 1820-11-27 in Ravenna.
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- Waldstein: 1821-12-19. Three dramas - two tragedies and one mystery - in blank verse: 2832, 1981 and 1794 lines, respectively. Cain is in three acts, the other two in five. Two prefaces by LB, one to the first two plays and one to Cain.
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- Waldstein: 1822-11-23. A tragedy in blank verse: 5 acts, 10 scenes, 3223 lines. Preface by LB. An 1823 edn.
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- Waldstein: 1823-02-20. A Drama in blank verse and three parts (1392 lines). 1824, 2nd edn. Prefatory note by LB.
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- Waldstein: 1823-04-01. Published anonymously. Subtitled “Carmen Seculare et Annus Haud Mirabilis”. 1823, 2nd edn. 18 stanzas, 778 lines. Political satire at its most strident and most potent. One LB's greatest masterpieces most people have never heard of, much less read.
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- Waldstein: 1823-06-26. "The last poem of any importance which Byron lived to write", except Cantos XV and XVI of Don Juan and according to Coleridge (#37), vol. 5, p. 584. Subtitled "Christian and his Comrades" and based on the famous mutiny story on the Bounty. Prefatory note and footnotes by LB. 4 Cantos, 1425 lines.
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- Waldstein: 1823-08-29. Cantos VI to XVI written between 1822-06 and 1823-03.
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- Waldstein: 1823-12-17. Cantos VI to XVI written between 1822-06 and 1823-03.
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- Waldstein: 1824-03-26. Cantos VI to XVI written between 1822-06 and 1823-03.
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- Waldstein: 1826, 2 vols., 1st edn., complete text, Cantos I - XVI.
Vol. 1: Cantos I to VI.
Vol. 2: Cantos VII to XVI.
Milner and Sowerby, 1837.
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- Waldstein: 1898-1904, 7 vols. Ed. Ernest Hartley Coleridge. Fine scholarly edition, meticulously annotated. Perhaps a little dated, yet available online for free; incomplete on Wikisource, but complete on Gutenberg:
Vol. 1: Early poems, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, The Curse of Minerva, The Waltz;
Vol. 2: Childe Harold;
Vol. 3: Turkish Tales, Hebrew Melodies, The Siege of Corinth, Parisina, poems 1809-13, 1814-16;
Vol. 4: Manfred, Mazeppa, The Lament of Tasso, The Prisoner of Chillon, The Prophesy of Dante, Beppo, Ode to Venice, Marino Faliero, The Vision of Judgement, The Blues, The Dream, poems 1816-23;
Vol. 5: Sardanapalus, The Two Foscari, Cain, Werner, Heaven and Earth, The Island, The Deformed Transformed, Age of Bronze;
Vol. 6: Don Juan;
Vol. 7: Jeux d'Esprit, minor poems, bibliography.
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- Waldstein: First published, 1904. Reprinted 14 times until 1939. Reset edition, 1945. Paperback edition, 1970. Wordsworth Poetry Library, 1994.
The standard one-volume edition of the complete works. Byron's notes retained (except in the Wordsworth edition where they are omitted!), but there is no critical apparatus except an index. Very closely printed in very small font, too.
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- Waldstein: 1995, rev. 2006. An indifferent and lightly annotated selection, but at budget price worth having for the complete texts of English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers, The Giaour, The Corsair and Don Juan.
Not to be mistaken with the 1994 Wordsworth edition (with the Albanian dress portrait on the cover) titled The Works of Lord Byron. This is an edition of Byron's complete works, with only brief introduction and without any explanatory notes. See #38.
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- Waldstein: 1972, as Selected Prose; 1984, as Selected Letters and Journals. Edited by Peter Gunn. Somewhat indifferent editorial work, perhaps to be expected in a popular edition, but a fine, extensive selection from the letters and the journals. Good biographical introductions by Mr Gunn. No match for Marchand's single volume (#44).
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Only 17 poems reprinted in all of the next three collections. The perfect copy of the 1st edn. was reprinted in 1886 in facsimile Chiswick Press, but only in 100 numbered copies for private use. The rarest of LB's works. 1933 facsimile edn.