Byron Links

A good list of Byron sources over the past 200 years including a brief biography by J. Keys.

The Poet's Corner poetry server's selection of Byron

A selection of Byron's works including Manfred and parts of Don Juan.

Another selection by Richard Darsie of Byron's lesser known poems , many from his letters. A good link for those who want more than the average textbook offers.

All of Don Juan online.

Manfred. All of it.

Byron's fragment of a novel. The modern Vampire is born.

Related Links

The Romantic Chronology for a better overview of the events that shaped the lives of Byron and his contemporaries.

For the more general search of Romantics. A comprehensive index including works by Byron's daughter, Agusta Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace.

A brief essay by Kim Woodbridge on the summer of 1816 in Switzerland during which time Mary Shelley created Frankenstein and Byron birthed the modern vampire.

John Polidori's The Vampyre based on Byron's Fragment of a Novel, Manfred, the Byronic hero and Byron himself. Polidori didn't like Byron much.

The Gothic Literature page.

More Gothic literature of the fantastic.

(Gothic Literature: ghost stories, "classic" Gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related Gothic, supernaturalist, and "weird" literature prior to 1960 (with a few exceptions).



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