Byron's Letter and Journals

Volume 2


(August 1811-April 1814)


Part of Byron's Works




a New, Revised and Enlarged Edition,with Illustrations.




This volume edited byRowland E. Prothero

1898

Table of Contents

• Preface

• List of Letters
• List of Journal Entries
• Detailed Contents of Appendices

• Chapter V—Childe Harold, Cantos I, II
• Chapter VI—The Idol of Society—The Drury Lane Address—Second Speech in Parliament
• Chapter VII—The Giaour and Bride of Abydos
• Chapter VIII—Journal: November 14, 1813-April 19, 1814

• Appendix I—Articles from The Monthly Review
• Appendix II—Parliamentary Speeches
• Appendix III—Lady Caroline Lamb and Byron
• Appendix IV—Letters of Bernard Barton
• Appendix V—Correspondence with Walter Scott
• Appendix VI—"The Giant and the Dwarf"
• Appendix VII—Attacks upon Byron in the Newspapers for February and March, 1814

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Preface

The second volume of Mr. Murray's edition of Byron's

Letters andJournals

carries the autobiographical record of the poet's life fromAugust, 1811, to April, 1814. Between these dates were published

Childe Harold

(Cantos I., II.),

The Waltz, The Giaour, TheBride of Abydos

, the

Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte

. At thebeginning of this period Byron had suddenly become the idol of society;towards its close his personal popularity almost as rapidly declinedbefore a storm of political vituperation.

Three

great collections of Byron's letters, as was noted in the Prefaceto the previous volume

¹

, are in existence. The first is contained inMoore's

Life

(1830); the second was published in America, inFitzGreene Halleck's edition of Byron's

Works

(1847); of thethird, edited by Mr. W. E. Henley, only the first volume has yetappeared. A comparison between the letters contained in these threecollections and in that of Mr. Murray, down to December, 1813, shows thefollowing results: Moore prints 152 letters; Halleck, 192; Mr. Henley,231. Mr. Murray's edition adds 236 letters to Moore, 196 to Halleck, andto Mr. Henley 157. It should also be noticed that the material added toMoore's

Life

in the second and third collections consists almostentirely of letters which were already in print, and had been, for themost part, seen and rejected by the biographer. The material added inMr. Murray's edition, on the contrary, consists mainly of letters whichhave never before been published, and were inaccessible to Moore when hewrote h

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