Byron's letters and journals: a new selection

Alongside Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful letters and journals tells the story from the inside, in Byron's own racy and passionate style. Though Byron is chiefly known as a poet, his letters and journals are one of the glories of English prose literature, and one of the greatest British acts of autobiography, alongside Pepys' Diary and Boswell's Journal. This new selection, taken from the.

Cover -- Byron's Letters and Journals: A New Selection -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Notes on the Text and Short Titles -- A Biographical Bibliography -- The Letters & Journals -- 1: Childhood, Boyhood, Youth: January 1788-June 1809 -- [To Charlotte Augusta Parker1] Newstead Abbey Novr. 8th. 1798 -- [To Mrs Catherine Gordon Byron] Nottingham 13th. March, 1799 -- [To John Hanson] [Dulwich, Nov.? 1799] -- [To Mrs Catherine Gordon Byron] Harrow on the Hill Sunday May 1st. 1803 -- [To Mrs Catherine Gordon Byron] [Sept. 15? 1803] -- [To Augusta Byron] Burgage Manor, March 22d. 1804 -- [To Augusta Byron] Burgage Manor April 2d. 1804 -- [To Augusta Byron] Burgage Manor April 9th. 1804 -- [To Augusta Byron] Harrow Saturday 11th. Novr. 1804 -- [To Hargreaves Hanson] Burgage Manor Southwell Notts. Monday April 15th. [1805] -- [To John Hanson] Trin. Coll. Oct 26th. 1805 -- [To Augusta Byron] Trin. Coll. Novr. 6th, 1805 -- [To John Hanson] Trin. Coll. Cambridge Novr. 23d. 1805 -- [To Mrs Catherine Gordon Byron] 16 Piccadilly Feby. 26th. 1806 -- [To John M.B. Pigot] London, Sunday, Midnight, August 10th, 1806 -- [To Dr. T. Falkner] Janry. 8th. 18…