Byron: A Poet before His Public

Abstract

List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements A note on the text Abbreviations Introduction 1. Experiment in Childe Harold I & II 2. The discovery of an audience: the Turkish tales 3. Shelley and the new school of poetry: Childe Harold III and The Prisoner of Chillon 4. Tourist rhetoric: Childe Harold IV 5. Modernizing the Gothic drama: Manfred 6. Heroic tableaux: the three historical tragedies 7. Cain, the reviewers, and Byron's new form of old-fashioned mischief 8. Don Juan Notes Bibliography Index.