Collection items

'A Fragment', from Mazeppa by Lord George Byron

Book

‘Mazeppa’ is a poem by Lord Byron based on a Ukrainian story about a young man who is punished for an illicit relationsh...

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III

Book

Lord Byron wrote his third canto of Childe Harold as he travelled through Belgium and up the Rhine to Switzerland, havin...

Don Juan, cantos 1-2

Book

Who published Don Juan?  Lord Byron, who had been living abroad since 1816, was not fully aware of the political situati...

Don Juan, cantos 1-5

Book, Illustration, Image

The publication of the first cantos of Lord Byron's Don Juan coincided with the politically charged atmosphere of the se...

Extract from The Corsair by Byron

Book

‘If I have deviated into the gloomy vanity of “drawing from self,”’ Lord George Byron wrote in the dedication to The Cor...

Illustrated edition of The Vampyre

Book, Illustration, Image

John Polidori’s tale of the vampire, which developed from the ‘ghost-story challenge’ of June 1816, was credited to Lord...

Illustrations to Byron's works

Book, Print, Image

Engravings illustrating the poetry and life of Lord Byron were highly popular during the early-mid 19th century. This 18...

Letter from Lord Byron about his memoirs, 29 Octob...

Manuscript, Letter, Ephemera Created date: 29 October 1819

This letter was written by Lord Byron to his publisher, John Murray, in October 1819. In the letter Byron recognises tha...

Letter from Lord Byron to Douglas Kinnaird about o...

Manuscript, Letter, Ephemera Created date: 20 January 1817

Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray, 4 November...

Manuscript, Letter, Ephemera Created date: 4 November 1820

In this letter to John Murray Lord Byron aims some very dismissive criticism at John Keats. He rather deliberately mista...

Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray about incide...

Manuscript, Letter, Ephemera Created date: 15 May 1819

This letter shows Lord Byron’s concern about the reception of his work, and also tells us about his relationship with ot...

Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray about other...

Manuscript, Letter, Ephemera Created date: 25 March 1817

Lord Byron starts this letter by outlining his opinion of Venice which, he states, has the benefit of a limited English ...

Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray about the de...

Manuscript, Letter, Ephemera Created date: 26 April 1821

This letter was written by Lord Byron from the Italian city of Ravenna to his publisher John Murray in London.  In the l...

Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray giving an ac...

Manuscript, Letter, Ephemera Created date: 25 February 1825

In 1825 Lord Byron’s relationship with his former publisher, John Murray, had not completely broken down, as is shown by...

Letter of complaint from Lord Byron to John Murray...

Manuscript, Letter, Ephemera Created date: 21 December 1822

At the time this letter was written Lord Byron’s relationship with his long-term publisher, John Murray, was almost at a...