Category: Poetry
Byron was a rapid as well as a voluminous writer. His _Tales_ were thrown off at lightning speed, and even his dramas were thought out and worked through with unhesitating energy and rapid achievement. Nevertheless, the composition of his two great poems was all but coextensiv...
too, _Extracts from a Diary_, January 11, 1821, _Letters_, 1901, v. 165, 166, "I have stood upon that plain [of Troy] _daily_, for more than a month, in 1810; and if anything di...
4. Chapter 4[55] [Juan Boscan, of Barcelona (1500-1544), in concert with his friend Garcilasso, Italianized Castilian poetry. He was the author of the _Leandro_, a poem in blank verse, of c...
7. Chapter 7[664] ["For the creed of Zoroaster," see Sir Walter Scott, _Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft_, 1830, pp. 87, 88. (See, too, _Cain_, act ii. sc. 2, line 404, _Poetical Works_...
3. Chapter 31818-1819. Both cantos were published on July 15, 1819. Cantos III., IV. were written in the winter of 1819-1820; Canto V., after an interval of nine months, in October-November...
6. Chapter 6[568] [According to the _Vocabulary of the Flash Language_, compiled by James Hardy Vaux, in 1812, and published at the end of his Memoirs, 1819, ii. 149-227, a kiddy, or "flash...
2. Chapter 2Byron was a rapid as well as a voluminous writer. His _Tales_ were thrown off at lightning speed, and even his dramas were thought out and worked through with unhesitating energ...
1. Chapter 1