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Title: The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4
Author: Lord Byron
Editor: Ernest Hartley Coleridge
Release Date: December 22, 2006 [EBook #20158]
Language: English
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superscript letters are shown by carets, as in May 27^th^.
An important feature of this edition is its copious footnotes. Footnotes
indexed with letters (e.g. [c], [bf]) show variant forms of Byron's text
from manuscripts and other sources. Footnotes indexed with arabic
numbers (e.g. [17], [221]) are informational. Text in notes and
elsewhere in square brackets is the work of editor E. H. Coleridge. Text
not in brackets is by Byron himself.
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they were referenced, and their indices started over on each page. In
this etext, footnotes have been collected at the ends of each section, and
have been consecutively numbered throughout. Within each block of
footnotes are numbers in braces: {321}. These represent the page
number on which following notes originally appeared. To find a note
that was originally printed on page 27, search for {27}.
In the work "Francesca di Rimini" the original printed lines of the
Italian on facing pages opposite the matching lines of Byron's
translation. In this etext, the lines of the Italian original have been
collected following the translation.
Two minor corrections were made in this etext, both in the note
following the title of MANFRED: the year 1348 was corrected to 1834,
and the word "Tschairowsky" was corrected to "Tschaikowsky."
THE WORKS
OF
LORD BYRON.
A NEW, REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION,
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
Poetry. Vol. IV.
EDITED BY

ERNEST HARTLEY COLERIDGE, M.A., HON. F.R.S.L.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S
SONS.
1901
PREFACE TO THE FOURTH VOLUME.
The poems included in this volume consist of thirteen longer or more
important works, written at various periods between June, 1816, and
October, 1821; of eight occasional pieces (_Poems of July-September_,
1816), written in 1816; and of another collection of occasional pieces
(_Poems_ 1816-1823), written at intervals between November, 1816,
and September, 1823. Of this second group of minor poems five are
now printed and published for the first time.
The volume is not co-extensive with the work of the period. The third
and fourth cantos of _Childe Harold_ (1816-1817), the first five cantos
of _Don Juan_ (1818, 1819, 1820), _Sardanapalus_, _The Two
Foscari_, _Cain_, and _Heaven and Earth_ (1821), form parts of other
volumes, but, in spite of these notable exceptions, the fourth volume
contains the work of the poet's maturity, which is and must ever remain
famous. Byron was not content to write on one kind of subject, or to
confine himself to one branch or species of poetry. He tracked the
footsteps now of this master poet, now of another, far outstripping
some of his models; soon spent in the pursuit of others. Even in his
own lifetime, and in the heyday of his fame, his friendliest critics, who
applauded him to the echo, perceived that the "manifold motions" of
his