SELECTED POEMS: LORD BYRON - Penguin

Described as 'Mad, bad, and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and brilliant, he remains almost as notorious for his life - as a political revolutionary, sexual adventurer and traveller - as he does for his literary work. Yet he produced some of the most daring and exuberant poetry of the Romantic age, from 'To Caroline' and 'To Woman' to the satirical English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, his exotic Eastern tales and the colourful narrative of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - the work that made him famous overnight and gave birth to the idea of the brooding Byronic hero.This Penguin Classic, based on the landmark Murray edition of 1832-4, is the only widely available selection to include Byron's own notes on the same page as the poetry. It contains the complete texts of many longer works including Sardanapalus and Childe Harold. The editors provide a new introduction for this edition, full explanatory notes, a bibliography, a biographical sketch and a detailed chronology of Byron's life and work.