/lit/ - Literature

start with Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

>>22233485
Start with vol 4 of his completed works.

>>22233485
The Major Works of Lord Byron published by Oxford World Classics is the definitive single volume Lord Byron collection in my opinion. It’s got the best and widest selection and the editor - who is also the editor of my favorite Swinburne collection - provides an excellent introduction and notes. I would recommend reading the book in order. It starts off with his earliest poems, which are relatively short and easy to read. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage comes right after that; it’s his second most popular work after Don Juan and is the one that made him famous, also very easy to read. You should then be ready to tackle the rest of his work in the last two thirds of the book, which includes the full text of Don Juan. My personal favorites are the closet dramas Manfred and Cain. It finishes off with a collection of his letters, which are excellent.

>>22233849
Can't these Oxford niggers edit a complete anthology of his plays?

>>22233485
any relation?

>>22233849
thank you .

>>22233849
I'm a Beppo/Mazeppa partisan myself, but great post, anon. G. Wilson Knight's work on Byron is both informative and fun to read, especially Byron and Shakespeare.