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This is a personal selection of books the author has found most useful and/or enjoyable. Most are concerned with Lord Byron, but I have also included works on Madame de Stäel whose life crossed with Byron's in London and in Geneva. She was one of the few major literary figures Byron encountered who was of the same social class. Her work forms a bridge between the Enlightenment and the Romantics.
LORD BYRON
WORKS
Lord Byron: The complete Poetical Works
Jerome J McGann, OUP, 7 vols, 1980-93
The best edition of Byron's poetry. At a criminal price.
Lord Byron: the Major Works
Jerome McGann, OUP, 2000
Lord Byron: The Complete Miscellaneous Prose
Andrew Nicholson, OUP, 1991
Includes Byron's reviews, speeches, writings, Armenian studies, and material pertaining to the Bowles/Pope controversy.
CORRESPONDENCE
Lord Byron's Letters and Journals
Leslie Marchand, John Murray, 13 vols, 1973-1994x
The most complete edition of Byron's letters and journals. Well worth reading in their own right - Byron never wrote an uninteresting sentence.
Byron's 'Corbeau Blanc': The Life and Letters of Lady Melbourne
ed. Jonathan David Grossey Moore, Liverpool UniversityPress, 1997
Includes Lady Melbourne's letters to Lord Byron at the time of his affair with Caroline Lamb and his marriage to Annabella Milbanke.
RECOLLECTIONS BY CONTEMPORARIES
Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author
Edward John Trelawny, New York Review of Books publication, 2000
Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley & Byron
Edward John Trelawny, Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2000
Medwin's Conversations of Lord Byron
ed. Ernest J Lovell Jr, Princeton University Press, 1966
BIOGRAPHIES / ESSAYS
Byron: A Biography
Leslie A Marchand, 3 vols, 1957
The Late Lord Byron
Doris Langley Moore, John Murray, 1961
Concerns the period immediately following Byron's death.
La diététique de lord Byron
Gabriel Matzneff, La Table Ronde, 1984
An excellent insight into Byron's character.
Byron: A Portrait
Leslie A Marchand, The Cresset Library, 1987
The Politics of Paradise: A Vindication of Byron
Michael Foot, Collins, 1988
Byron: Life and Legend
Fiona MacCarthy, John Murray, 2002
FAMILY
The Real Lady Byron
Joan Pierson, Robert Hale, 1992
Ada Countess of Lovelace: Byron's Legitimate Daughter
Doris Langley Moore, John Murray, 1977
The Byrons and the Trevanions
A L Rowse, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1978
The House of Byron
Violet W Walker, Quiller Press, 1988
Byron's Daughter: A Biography
Catherine Turney, Peter Davies, 1974
LOVERS
Lady Caroline Lamb: This Infernal Woman
Susan Normington, House of Stratus, 2001
Glenarvon
Caroline Lamb, Everyman, 1995
The Last Attachment
Iris Origo, Jonathan Cape & John Murray, 1949
Byron's affair with Contessa Teresa Guiccioli
FRIENDS & AQUAINTANCES
The Rise and Fall of a Regency Dandy: The Life and Times of Scrope Beardmore Davies
T A J Burnett, John Murray, 1981
Provides an insight into what 'Dandyism' was really about and dispels the myth that the Dandies were only concerned with clothes and foppyish behavior. The information on 'Bamming' helps put the tall tales of Edward John Trelawny in perspective.
Trelawny: The Incurable Romancer
William St Clair, John Murray, 1977
Lord Byron's Jackal: A Life of Edward John Trelawny
David Crane, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999
Isaac D'Israeli
James Ogden, OUP, 1969
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Shelley's Poetical Works
Thomas Hutchinson, OUP, 1932
Shelley: The Pursuit
Richard Holmes, Penguin Books, 1987
MARY SHELLEY
The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
ed. Betty T Bennett, John Hopkins University Press, Vol 1, 1980
The Journals of Mary Shelley
ed. Paula R Feldman & Dian Scott-Kilvert, John Hopkins University Press, 1995
Selected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
ed. Betty T Bennet, John Hopkins University Press, 1995
The Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of the Family
William St Clair, Faber & Faber Ltd, 1989
CLAIRE CLAREMONT
The Clairmont Correspondence
ed. Marion Kingston Stocking, John Hopkins University Press, 2 vols, 1995
The letters of Claire Clairmont, Charles Clairmont, and Fanny Imlay Godwin
Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys
Robert Gittings & Jo Manton, OUP, 1992
MADAME DE STÄEL
BIOGRAPHIES
Mistress to an Age: The Life of Madame de Stäel
J Christopher Herold, Hamish Hamilton, 1958
Une singulière famille: Jacques Necker, Suzanne Necker et Germaine de Stäel
Jean-Denis Bredin, Fayard, 1999
CORRESPONDENCE
Correspondance Général
10 vols, Klincksieck
Le plus beau de toutes les fêtes, La correspondance inédite de Madame de Stäel et d'Elisabeth Hervey, duchesse de Devonshire
Victor de Pange, Klincksieck, 1980
WORKS
Oeuvres de jeunesse
ed. John Isbell and Simone Balayé, Desjonqùres, 1997
De la litérature considérée dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales
ed. A Blaeschke, Classiques Garnier, 1998
De l'Allemagne
ed. A Blaeschke, Garnier-Flammarion, 2 vols, 1968
Considérations sur la Révolution française
Tallandier, 1983
Delphine
ed. Simone Balayé, Honoré Champion, 2004
Delphine
tr. Avriel H Goldberger, Northern Illinois University Press, 1995
Corinne ou l'Italie
ed. Simone Balayé, Honoré Champion, 2000
Corinne ou l'Italie
ed. Simone Balayé, Folio Classique, 1983
Corinne or Italy
tr. Avriel H Goldberger, Rutgers University Press, 1981
Dix années d'exil
ed. Simone Balayé et Mariella Vianello Bonifacio, Fayard, 1996
CRITICISM
The Birth of European Romanticism: Truth and propoganda in Staäel's De l'Allemagne
John Clairborne Isbell, Cambridge University Press, 1994
The Literary Existence of Germaine de Stäel
Charlotte Hogsett, Southern Illinois University Press, 1987
THE ROMANTIC AGE
The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse
Jerome J McGann, OUP, 1993
A magnificent edition of poetry from 1785 to 1832
The Romantic Reviewers 1802-1824
John O Hayden, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969
This is a personal selection of books the author has found most useful and/or enjoyable. Most are concerned with Lord Byron, but I have also included works on Madame de Stäel whose life crossed with Byron's in London and in Geneva. She was one of the few major literary figures Byron encountered who was of the same social class. Her work forms a bridge between the Enlightenment and the Romantics.
LORD BYRON
WORKS
Lord Byron: The complete Poetical Works
Jerome J McGann, OUP, 7 vols, 1980-93
The best edition of Byron's poetry. At a criminal price.
Lord Byron: the Major Works
Jerome McGann, OUP, 2000
Lord Byron: The Complete Miscellaneous Prose
Andrew Nicholson, OUP, 1991
Includes Byron's reviews, speeches, writings, Armenian studies, and material pertaining to the Bowles/Pope controversy.
CORRESPONDENCE
Lord Byron's Letters and Journals
Leslie Marchand, John Murray, 13 vols, 1973-1994x
The most complete edition of Byron's letters and journals. Well worth reading in their own right - Byron never wrote an uninteresting sentence.
Byron's 'Corbeau Blanc': The Life and Letters of Lady Melbourne
ed. Jonathan David Grossey Moore, Liverpool UniversityPress, 1997
Includes Lady Melbourne's letters to Lord Byron at the time of his affair with Caroline Lamb and his marriage to Annabella Milbanke.
RECOLLECTIONS BY CONTEMPORARIES
Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author
Edward John Trelawny, New York Review of Books publication, 2000
Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley & Byron
Edward John Trelawny, Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2000
Medwin's Conversations of Lord Byron
ed. Ernest J Lovell Jr, Princeton University Press, 1966
BIOGRAPHIES / ESSAYS
Byron: A Biography
Leslie A Marchand, 3 vols, 1957
The Late Lord Byron
Doris Langley Moore, John Murray, 1961
Concerns the period immediately following Byron's death.
La diététique de lord Byron
Gabriel Matzneff, La Table Ronde, 1984
An excellent insight into Byron's character.
Byron: A Portrait
Leslie A Marchand, The Cresset Library, 1987
The Politics of Paradise: A Vindication of Byron
Michael Foot, Collins, 1988
Byron: Life and Legend
Fiona MacCarthy, John Murray, 2002
FAMILY
The Real Lady Byron
Joan Pierson, Robert Hale, 1992
Ada Countess of Lovelace: Byron's Legitimate Daughter
Doris Langley Moore, John Murray, 1977
The Byrons and the Trevanions
A L Rowse, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1978
The House of Byron
Violet W Walker, Quiller Press, 1988
Byron's Daughter: A Biography
Catherine Turney, Peter Davies, 1974
LOVERS
Lady Caroline Lamb: This Infernal Woman
Susan Normington, House of Stratus, 2001
Glenarvon
Caroline Lamb, Everyman, 1995
The Last Attachment
Iris Origo, Jonathan Cape & John Murray, 1949
Byron's affair with Contessa Teresa Guiccioli
FRIENDS & AQUAINTANCES
The Rise and Fall of a Regency Dandy: The Life and Times of Scrope Beardmore Davies
T A J Burnett, John Murray, 1981
Provides an insight into what 'Dandyism' was really about and dispels the myth that the Dandies were only concerned with clothes and foppyish behavior. The information on 'Bamming' helps put the tall tales of Edward John Trelawny in perspective.
Trelawny: The Incurable Romancer
William St Clair, John Murray, 1977
Lord Byron's Jackal: A Life of Edward John Trelawny
David Crane, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999
Isaac D'Israeli
James Ogden, OUP, 1969
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Shelley's Poetical Works
Thomas Hutchinson, OUP, 1932
Shelley: The Pursuit
Richard Holmes, Penguin Books, 1987
MARY SHELLEY
The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
ed. Betty T Bennett, John Hopkins University Press, Vol 1, 1980
The Journals of Mary Shelley
ed. Paula R Feldman & Dian Scott-Kilvert, John Hopkins University Press, 1995
Selected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
ed. Betty T Bennet, John Hopkins University Press, 1995
The Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of the Family
William St Clair, Faber & Faber Ltd, 1989
CLAIRE CLAREMONT
The Clairmont Correspondence
ed. Marion Kingston Stocking, John Hopkins University Press, 2 vols, 1995
The letters of Claire Clairmont, Charles Clairmont, and Fanny Imlay Godwin
Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys
Robert Gittings & Jo Manton, OUP, 1992
MADAME DE STÄEL
BIOGRAPHIES
Mistress to an Age: The Life of Madame de Stäel
J Christopher Herold, Hamish Hamilton, 1958
Une singulière famille: Jacques Necker, Suzanne Necker et Germaine de Stäel
Jean-Denis Bredin, Fayard, 1999
CORRESPONDENCE
Correspondance Général
10 vols, Klincksieck
Le plus beau de toutes les fêtes, La correspondance inédite de Madame de Stäel et d'Elisabeth Hervey, duchesse de Devonshire
Victor de Pange, Klincksieck, 1980
WORKS
Oeuvres de jeunesse
ed. John Isbell and Simone Balayé, Desjonqùres, 1997
De la litérature considérée dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales
ed. A Blaeschke, Classiques Garnier, 1998
De l'Allemagne
ed. A Blaeschke, Garnier-Flammarion, 2 vols, 1968
Considérations sur la Révolution française
Tallandier, 1983
Delphine
ed. Simone Balayé, Honoré Champion, 2004
Delphine
tr. Avriel H Goldberger, Northern Illinois University Press, 1995
Corinne ou l'Italie
ed. Simone Balayé, Honoré Champion, 2000
Corinne ou l'Italie
ed. Simone Balayé, Folio Classique, 1983
Corinne or Italy
tr. Avriel H Goldberger, Rutgers University Press, 1981
Dix années d'exil
ed. Simone Balayé et Mariella Vianello Bonifacio, Fayard, 1996
CRITICISM
The Birth of European Romanticism: Truth and propoganda in Staäel's De l'Allemagne
John Clairborne Isbell, Cambridge University Press, 1994
The Literary Existence of Germaine de Stäel
Charlotte Hogsett, Southern Illinois University Press, 1987
THE ROMANTIC AGE
The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse
Jerome J McGann, OUP, 1993
A magnificent edition of poetry from 1785 to 1832
The Romantic Reviewers 1802-1824
John O Hayden, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969
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