Byron, George Gordon Byron, BaronVerified

Byron's mock-epic poem follows Don Juan through picaresque adventures across continents and social strata, using seduction, shipwrecks, and satire to skewer Romanticism, morality, and society with irreverent wit and genuine social observation.

A long narrative poem, issued between 1812 and 1818, about a young man tired of a life of pleasure who travels through Europe. He visits Spain, Portugal, Greece, Waterloo and Italy, meeting natural beauty and historic sites and falling into melancholy.

Byron's complete poetry spans from scandalous personal revelation to epic mythological reimagining, showcasing a writer who made confessional vulnerability and linguistic daring into revolutionary acts. His influence on how we understand the tortured, glamorous artist archetype starts here.

Volume three of an edition of Byron's works, gathering narrative poems written between 1812 and 1815, the Hebrew Melodies, and shorter poems from 1809 to 1816. Ernest Hartley Coleridge supplies a preface, and tales such as The Giaour appear.

A volume of Byron's poetry from the years 1816 to 1821, written in Switzerland and Italy. It opens with a preface and then "The Prisoner of Chillon," in which a man jailed for resisting oppression recounts his isolation and loss.

The first volume of Byron's letters and journals, covering 1798 to 1811. Editor Rowland Prothero introduces his early life, schooling, his mother and his half-sister Augusta, along with his health and friendships.