FROM THE POETRY OF

LORD BYRON

EDITED WITH

AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

BY

FREDERIC IVES CARPENTER, PH.D.

Instructor in English, the University of Chicago

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CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION :

I. Two Aspects of Byron : the Man and the Poet . v

II. The Personal Byron . . . . . . . . . . vi

III. Relation to his Times. . . . . . . . . . xiii

IV. Political Ideas : the Poet of Liberty . . . . . xix

V. Ideas on Life, Here and Hereafter, on God, and

on Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . xxii

VI. Literary Relations ... · · · · · · · XXvi

VII. Literary Creed and Motives. . . . . . . . XXX

VIII. Style and Literary Characteristics . . . . xxxvii

IX. Summary : Permanent Elements and Final Posi-

tion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xlvi

CHRONOLOGICAL OUTLINE OF THE LIFE OF BYRON. . li

BIBLIOGRAPHY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lv

SELECTIONS :

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Parts of Cantos I-II. Can-

tos III-IV entire) . . . . . . . . . . . . I

The Prisoner of Chillon . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Manfred · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 168

The Dream · · · ·

· 213

Darkness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Mazeppa : The Ride (Sections IX to the end). . . . 223

Don Juan : The Shipwreck (from Canto II) ...

The Isles of Greece (from Canto III). . . 262

The Death of Haidée (from Canto IV) . . 273

Cain, Scenę I of Act II . . . . . . . . . . • 279