The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. PoetryByron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
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The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
Poetry
Донъ-Жуанъ иа островѣ пирата. Перев. Д. Мина Москва [Cyrillic:
Don"-Djuan" ia ostrov" pirata. Perev. D. Mina Moskva], 1881.
_The Liberal_.
The/ Liberal./ Verse and Prose From The/ South./ Volume the First./
London, 1822:/ Printed by and for John Hunt,/ 22, Old Bond Street./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. xii. + 3-399 + Cont., p. [401] (R. "Errata," p. [402]). The
Imprint (_London_:/ _C.H. Reynell, Printer,/ 45, Broad-Street,
Golden-Square_.) is at the foot of p. [402].
Vol. II.: [The/ Liberal,/ etc./ Volume The Second./ London, 1823:/
Printed for John Hunt,/ 22, Old Bond Street./], pp. viii. + 1-377 +
Cont. of No. iv., p. [379]. The Imprint (_London:/ Printed by C.H.
Reynell, Broad Street, Golden-Square_.) is at the foot of p. [380].
_Contents_ [Lord Byron's contributions]--
Vol. I.: _The Liberal_, No. 1. The Vision of Judgment. By Quevedo
Redivivus. Suggested by the Composition so entitled by the Author of
"Wat Tyler." "A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! I thank thee,
Jew, for teaching me that word." Pp. 8-39; Letter to the Editor of "My
Grandmother's Review," pp. 41-50; Epigrams on Lord Castlereagh, p. 164.
_The Liberal_, No. II. Heaven and Earth, A Mystery, Founded on the
Following Passage in Genesis, Chap. vi.: "And it came to pass ... that
the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they
took them wives of all which they chose." "And woman wailing for her
demon lover."--Coleridge. Part I., etc., pp. 165-206. From the French
("Ægle, beauty and poet," etc.), p. 396; Martial.--Lib. I. Epig. I
(Translation), p. 398; New Duet ("Why how now, saucy Tom?"), _ibid._
Vol. II.: _The Liberal_, No. III. _The Blues, A Literary Eclogue_,
"Nimium ne crede colori."--VIRGIL. O trust not, ye beautiful creatures,
to hue, Though your _hair_ were as _red_ as your stockings are _blue_.
Eclogue the First, etc., pp. 1-21.
_The Liberal_, No. IV. Morgante Maggiore di Messer Luigi Pulci, pp.
193-249.
_Note_.--The text of the original Italian is printed after the English
translation.
_Dedication of Don Juan_.
The following note was attached to the "Dedication" which was prefixed
to the First Canto in 1833 (_Works_, 1833, xv. 101):--
"Note(1). [This 'Dedication' was suppressed in 1819, with Lord Byron's
reluctant consent; but, shortly after his death, its existence became
notorious, in consequence of an article in the _Westminster Review_,
generally ascribed to Sir John Hobhouse, and for several years the
verses have been selling in the streets as a broadside. It could
therefore serve no purpose to exclude them on the present occasion.]"
See, too, _Poetical Works_, 1903, vi. 3.
I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. H. Buxton Forman, C.B., for the
following description of one of these "broadsides," now in his
possession:--
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