Books by Lord George Gordon Byron

Who are the literary ancestors of Dracula? How did the classic vampire--the tall, dark, elegant aristocrat with an endless life and an unquenchable thirst for blood--become a mass-media star? James Grant Goldin presents a curated anthology of the original texts, some freshly translated, that trace the evolution of the vampire lord in the 18th and 19th centuries. Newspaper accounts of "real" vampires in the Austro-Hungarian Empire bring word of a new kind of monster to England, France, and Germany in the 1700s. Poets experiment with the vampire, often emphasizing sexual undercurrents ignored or glossed over in official reports. In the early 1800s, George Gordon, Lord Byron, provides the template for all male vampires to come: a brooding aristocrat, irresistibly attractive but cursed to bring doom to those around him. After the Byronesque Lord Ruthven in John Polidori's seminal "The Vampyre: A Tale," almost all vampires will be literal aristocrats -- a metamorphosis from the bloodsucking peasants of the 18th century. A secret society of vampires hold elegant balls in the heart of Moscow, Sir Francis Varney stalks an English country house in the early Victorian Age, and the sexy Carpathian Count Kostaki menaces a beautiful woman half a century before Bram Stoker's "Dracula."  VAMPIRES: FIRST BLOOD VOLUME I - THE VAMPIRE LORDS collects the original adventures of the nosferatu who set the stage for Dracula, Barnabas, Lestat, and Edward -- bringing them out of the dark shadows and back to the attention of 21st century readers, complete with introductory notes and detailed glossaries to make these stories of the undead come alive for a new generation."Arnold Paul" by Calmet and others"The Vampire" by Ossenfelder"The Vampyre" by Stagg"The Burial: A Fragment" by Byron"The Vampyre" by Polidori"The Family of the Vourdalak" by Tolstoy"Ghoul" (excerpt) by Tolstoy"Varney the Vampyre" (excerpts) by Rymer"The Pale Lady" by Dumas and Bocage 

Lord Byron''s satirical masterpiece, an epic poem which mimics legendary folklore, is presented here complete for the reader''s enjoyment.First published in 1824 to great fanfare, Lord Byron''s Don Juan is a comic reworking of the legend of the same name. In an amusing twist, Byron has Don Juan not as a womaniser, but as a man who easily falls prey to various seductresses. This single alteration gives Byron much opportunity for humour, being as Don Juan''s plot is riddled with his affairs with many women. At the opening of the text Byron famously mocks Robert Southey, a contemporary Romantic poet who held the esteemed title of Poet Laureate for three decades. The barbed verses mock and skewer what Byron viewed as inadequacies in his rival''s form, which Byron himself liberally quotes and maligns. On publication, Don Juan received a generally warm reception for its strident commitment to humour. Over the years the work became considered as one of the foremost achievements of Romantic-era poetry.

Lord Byron's satirical masterpiece, an epic poem which mimics legendary folklore, is presented here complete for the reader's enjoyment.First published in 1824 to great fanfare, Lord Byron's Don Juan is a comic reworking of the legend of the same name. In an amusing twist, Byron has Don Juan not as a womaniser, but as a man who easily falls prey to various seductresses. This single alteration gives Byron much opportunity for humour, being as Don Juan's plot is riddled with his affairs with many women. At the opening of the text Byron famously mocks Robert Southey, a contemporary Romantic poet who held the esteemed title of Poet Laureate for three decades. The barbed verses mock and skewer what Byron viewed as inadequacies in his rival's form, which Byron himself liberally quotes and maligns. On publication, Don Juan received a generally warm reception for its strident commitment to humour. Over the years the work became considered as one of the foremost achievements of Romantic-era poetry.

George Gordon Noel Byron, 6. Baron Byron of Rochdale (1788 - 1824), bekannt als Lord Byron, war ein britischer Dichter. Manfred ist der Titel eines dramatischen Gedichts in drei Akten von George Gordon Lord Byron aus dem Jahre 1817. Es zählt zu den wichtigsten Werken nicht nur Byrons, sondern der ganzen Romantik. Das Werk entstand zwischen 1816 und 1817 und ist sichtlich inspiriert von Byrons Aufenthalt in der Schweiz 1816, während dessen er zahlreiche Wanderungen in die Hochalpen unternahm. Byrons Werk entstand in der Tradition der Gothic Novel und zählt zusammen mit dem Roman Frankenstein von seiner Bekannten Mary Shelley zu den wichtigsten Werken der Schauerliteratur in der englischen Romantik. Byrons Werk beeinflusste Dichter wie Edgar Allan Poe und hatte mit seiner bildgewaltigen Schilderung auch auf den Film prägenden Einfluss.

Title: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A romaunt. [Cantos I and II. With fourteen other poems.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage and verse. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++ British Library Byron, George Gordon; 1814. xii. 296 p. ; 8º. 11643.l.14.(1.)