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BYRON

BY

JOHN NICHOL

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.ANCESTRY AND FAMILY

CHAPTER II.EARLY YEARS AND SCHOOL-LIFE. 1788-1808.

CHAPTER III.CAMBRIDGE, AND FIRST PERIOD OF AUTHORSHIP—HOURS OF IDLENESS—BARDS ANDREVIEWERS. 1808-1809.

CHAPTER IV.TWO YEARS OF TRAVEL. 1809-1811.

CHAPTER V.LIFE IN LONDON—CORRESPONDENCE WITH SCOTT AND MOORE—SECOND PERIOD OFAUTHORSHIP—HAROLD (I., II.). AND THE ROMANCES. 1811-1815.

CHAPTER VI.MARRIAGE AND SEPARATION—FAREWELL TO ENGLAND. 1815-1816.

CHAPTER VII.SWITZERLAND—VENICE—THIRD PERIOD OF AUTHORSHIP—HAROLD (III., IV.)—MANFRED. 1816-1820.

CHAPTER VIII.RAVENNA—COUNTESS GUICCIOLI—THE DRAMAS—CAIN—VISION OF JUDGMENT.1820-1821.

CHAPTER IX.PISA—GENOA—THE LIBERAL—DON JUAN. 1821-1823.

CHAPTER. X.POLITICS—THE CARBONARI—EXPEDITION TO GREECE—DEATH. 1821-1824.

CHAPTER XI.CHARACTERISTICS, AND PLACE IN LITERATURE

INDEX

BOOKS CONSULTED.

1. The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, Commodore, in a late
Expedition Round the World, &c. (Baker and Leigh) 1768

2. Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands in the years
1824-1825, the Right Hon. Lord Byron, Commander (John Murray) 1826

3. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Hon. Lord Byron (H.
Colburn) 1822

4. The Life, Writings, Opinions, and Times of G.G. Noel Byron, with courtiers of tho present polished and enlightened age, &c., &c., 3 vols. (M. Hey) 1825

5. Narrative of Lord Byron's last Journey to Greece, from Journal of
Count Peter Gamba 1825

6. Medwin's Conversations with Lord Byron at Pisa, 2 vols. (H. Colburn)
1825

7. Leigh Hunt's Byron and His Contemporaries (H. Colburn)
1828

8. The Works of Lord Byron, with Life by Thomas Moore, 17
vols. (Murray) 1832

9. Galt's Life of Lord Byron (Colburn and Buntley) 1830

10. Kennedy's Conversations on Religion (Murray) 1830

11. Countess of Blessington's Conversations (Colburn) 1834

12. Lady Morgan's Memoirs, 2 vols. (W.H. Allen) 1842

13. Recollections of the Countess Guiccioli (Bentley) 1869

14. Castelar's Genius and Character of Byron (Tinsley) 1870

15. Elze's Life of Lord Byron (Murray) 1872

16. Trelawny's Reminiscences of Byron and Shelley 1858

17. Torrens' Memoirs of Viscount Melbourne (Macmillan) 1878

18. Rev. F. Hodgson's Memoirs, 2 vols. (Macimillan) 1879

19. Essays and Articles, or Recorded Criticisms, by Macaulay, Scott, Shelley, Goethe, G. Brandes, Mazzini, Sainte Beuve, Chasles, H. Taine, &c.

20. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage 1879

GENEALOGY OF THE BYRON FAMILY.

THE BYRON FAMILY, FROM THE CONQUEST

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