Lord Byron: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
The standard edition of Byronâs poems is The Complete Poetical Works, ed. by Jerome J. McGann, 7 vol. (1980â93), with valuable information on the poems and their composition. Byronâs Letters and Journals, ed. by Leslie A. Marchand, 12 vol. (1973â81), contains many newly discovered letters. A generous sampling is given in Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals, ed. by Leslie A. Marchand (1982).
A standard modern biography is Leslie A. Marchand, Byron, 3 vol. (1957), which is abridged and updated in his Byron: A Portrait (1970, reissued 1993). Other 20th-century biographical discoveries are in Doris Langley Moore, Lord Byron: Accounts Rendered (1974); Malcolm Elwin, Lord Byronâs Wife (1962, reissued 1974); and Phyllis Grosskurth, Byron: The Flawed Angel (1997). Works of criticism include M.K. Joseph, Byron: The Poet (1964); Leslie A. Marchand, Byronâs Poetry: A Critical Introduction (1965); Robert F. Gleckner, Byron and the Ruins of Paradise (1967, reprinted 1980); Edward E. Bostetter (ed.), Twentieth Century Interpretations of Don Juan (1969); Jerome J. McGann, Don Juan in Context (1976); and Peter J. Manning, Byron and His Fictions (1978). Andrew Rutherford (compiler), Byron: The Critical Heritage (1970), collects 19th-century critiques; while Robert F. Gleckner (ed.), Critical Essays on Lord Byron (1991), contains studies from 1960 on.
Worthwhile books about Byronâs sexuality and love affairs include Louis Crompton, Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in 19th-Century England (1985); and Benita Eisler, Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame (1999).
Studies and biographies published in the 21st century include Fiona MacCarthy, Byron: Life and Legend (2002); Lord Byron, ed. by Harold Bloom (2004); and Edna OâBrien, Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life (2009). Byron and the 1816 âhaunted summerâ in Switzerland are examined in Daisy Hay, Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetryâs Greatest Generation (2010); and Andrew McConnell Stott, The Poet and the Vampyre (2014). Byronâs wife and daughter are discussed in Miranda Seymour, In Byronâs Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byronâs Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace (2018).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new Web site: The Victorian Web - George Gordon, Lord Byron. | Aug 28, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Apr 15, 2026 | ||
| Added cross-references. | Jan 26, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 19, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: HistoryNet - Why Most Towns in Greece Have Streets Named After Lord Byron. | Dec 06, 2025 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Dec 04, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Heritage History - ByronÂ"Childe Harold's Pilgrimage". | Oct 17, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC News - Lord Byron: The celebrity diet icon. | Aug 02, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 18, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Lord Byron and the end of fame. | Nov 18, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture - Biography of Lord Byron. | Sep 14, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Poetry Archive - Lord Byron. | Jul 31, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - The Representation of Beauty Discourse in All Lord Byron's Selected Poems. | May 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Pennsylvania - School of Arts and Sciences - George Gordon. | Apr 19, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Feb 20, 2024 | ||
| Media added. | Nov 17, 2023 | ||
| Media added. | Oct 18, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: AllPoetry - Biography of George Gordon Byron. | Jun 19, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: British Library - Lord Byron, 19th-century bad boy. | Apr 04, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction - Biography of Lord Byron. | Dec 05, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jan 07, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: Historic UK - Biography of Lord Byron. | Nov 22, 2020 | ||
| Mary Godwin also identified as Mary Shelley; "Godwin's stepdaughter by a second marriage, Claire Clairmont" changed to "Claire Clairmont, her half sister." | Feb 22, 2018 | ||
| Changed title of the "Assessment" section to "Legacy." | Nov 15, 2017 | ||
| Added cross-references. | Sep 13, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Literary Devices - George Gordon Byron. | Dec 02, 2016 | ||
| Changed article title from George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron to Lord Byron. | Sep 27, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Poets.org - Biography of George Gordon Byron. | Nov 27, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: AllMusic - Biography of Lord Byron. | Nov 27, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: European Graduate School - Biography of Lord Byron. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Byron Society - Biography of Lord Byron. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Poetry Foundation - Biography of Lord Byron. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Literature Network - Biography of Lord George Gordon Byron. | Dec 06, 2012 | ||
| Media added. | May 04, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of George Gordon Noel Byron. | Nov 25, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Lord Byron. | Nov 23, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Lord Byron. | Nov 23, 2011 | ||
| In the following sentence, "sufficient" was changed to "an": "...his attachment to women throughout his life is sufficient indication of the strength of his heterosexual drive." | Jan 25, 2011 | ||
| Contributor was misidentified as Lawrence A. Mamiya rather than Leslie A. Marchand. | Apr 29, 2009 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Feb 09, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: George Gordon, Lord Byron - 1788-1824. | Jul 17, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Life and Work of Lord Byron (1788-1824). | May 22, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Mar 16, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Jun 21, 2002 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 29, 1999 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |