BYRON, GEORGE GORDON (1788 - 1824)

A selective bibliography of 34 active links for Byron, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites


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Literary Criticism

Elfenbein, Andrew. "Paranoid Poetics: Byron, Schreber, Freud." In Romanticism On the Net 23 (August 2001)

Elfenbein, Andrew. A review of two Byron publications: Andrew Elfenbein's Byron and the Victorians (1995); and Donald A. Low (ed.), Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose (1995). Review by Matthew Scott in Romanticism on the Net

Garofalo, Daniela. "Political seductions: the show of war in Byron's Sardanapalus - Lord Byron." On the play and the Napoleonic wars, in Criticism, Wntr, 2002

George, Laura. "Reification and the Dandy: Beppo, Byron, and other Queer Things." Romanticism on the Net, special issue on Queer Romanticism, Issues 36-37 (November 2004-February 2005)

Goldberg, Brian. "Byron, Blake, and Heaven," in Romanticism on the Net, Issue 27 (August 2002)

Goldweber, David E. "Byron, Catholicism, and Don Juan XVII," in Renascence, Spring 1997

Gross, Jonathan David. Byron: The Erotic Liberal reviewed by G. Todd Davis in Romanticism on the Net, 25, 2002

Holstad, Scott C. "Byron's Biography: Don Juan and Byron's Existential Angst"

Jones, Christine. "'When this world shall be former': Catastrophism as imaginative theory for the younger Romantics," in Romanticism on the Net, 24 (2001)

Kelsall, Malcolm. A substantial introduction to Byron from the Literary Encyclopedia

Marchand, Leslie. Chapter from Marchand's 1970 biography of Byron, covering the years 1808-1809

Mullan, John (ed.) A review of Lives of the Great Romantics (1996). Review by Michael Laplace-Sinatra in Romanticism on the Net.

Parille, Ken. "All the rage: Wordsworth's attack on Byron in Lines Addressed to a Noble Lord," in Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 2001

Rosa, George M. "Byron, Mme de Stael, Schlegel, and the religious motif in Armance," in Comparative Literature, Fall 1994

Saintsbury, George. Older criticism: A discussion of verse form in Byron and other Romantics, in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21)

Stabler, Jane. A review of Jane Stabler's Byron, Poetics and History. (Cambridge UP, 2002). Reviewed by Jonathan Sachs, Romanticism on the Net, Issues 38-39 (May-August 2005)

Stauffer, Andrew M. On anger as a poetic stance in Byron's work, from the Romantic Circles web site

Stein, Atara. "Immortals and Vampires and Ghosts, Oh My!: Byronic Heroes in Popular Culture." On the continuing influence of the Byronic hero. In Romantic Circles Praxis Series/Romanticism and Contemporary Culture, Feb. 2002

Vail, Jeffrey W. A review of The Literary Relationship of Lord Byron and Thomas Moore, reviewed by William Brewer in Romanticism on the Net, 26 (2002)

Walker, David. "'People's Ancestors are History's Game': Byron's Don Juan and Russian History," in Studies in the Literary Imagination, Fall 2003

Whissel, Cynthia. "'Tis more than what is called mobility': Structure and a Development towards Understanding in Byron's Don Juan," in Romanticism on the Net


Introductory, overview, unsigned material

A biography of Byron from the Books and Writers web site, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland

A biography of Byron from the Gale Group's Exploring Poetry

Performing Byron's Don Juan, a project involving high school students, organized by Professor Jonathan Gross of DePaul University

Some older criticism of Byron's works from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes(1907-21). Childe Harold; On Don Juan

Brief note on Byron's lyric "She walks in beauty," from a class at Vanderbilt

"The Misfortune of Poetry," by Christopher Hitchens, contends that Byron's dramatic life has become inseparable from his work. In a review of Byron: Life and Legend, by Fiona MacCarthy, in The Atlantic Monthly, October 2002 (removed)

A summary of articles about Byron published in The Atlantic Monthly, some as far back as the 1800's, with links to the original articles. (Removed. However, The Atlantic Monthly from 1857 to 1901 can be searched at this site provided by Cornell Univ. http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/moa_browse.html A patient researcher will find historical articles about Byron and other 19th century authors here.)


Web sites, Bibliography, Texts

Romanticism on the Net an international, peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to British Romantic studies, edited by Michael Eberle-Sinatra. An impressive scholarly enterprise devoted to English literature of the Romantic period, the journal has been making essays freely available since 1996

Romantic Circles, "a refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture," is an innovative publication on topics in Romanticism. Edited by Neil Fraistat, Steven E. Jones and Carl Stahmer

Articles from the scholarly journal Studies in Romanticism 2000-2005 are available at this web site from the Gale Group, "Access My Library." Registration is required but it appears to be a free, open access site. The addition of this resource to the open access sites Romanticism on the Net and Romantic Circles means there are quite astonishing riches available on the free internet for the student of Romanticism [none cat.]

Web site for the scholarly journal The Wordworth Circle

"A Romantic Natural History" focuses on relationships between literary works and natural history in the century before Darwin, with articles on Byron and other Romantics. By Professor Ashton Nichols

The International Byron Society contains some brief articles and an annotated bibliography

Goode, Clement Tyron (ed.) George Gordon, Lord Byron: A Comprehensive, Annotated Research Bibliography of Secondary Materials in English 1973-1994. Reviewed in Romanticism on the Net by Andrew Nicholson

For a list of Byron's etexts available on the internet, use this link to the On-Line Books Page, a search engine from John Mark Ockerbloom that provides links to full texts on the internet

Search findarticles.com for additional reviews of scholarly books on Byron


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