The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 1. Poetry
 and 

To Mary

, together with the last six stanzas of the lines, 

To Miss E. P. [To Eliza]

, have never been republished in any edition of Byron's 

Poetical Works

.

 

 A second edition, small octavo, of 

Fugitive Pieces

, entitled 

Poems on Various Occasions

, was printed by S. and J. Ridge of Newark, and distributed in January, 1807. This volume was issued anonymously. It numbers 144 pages, and consists of a reproduction of thirty-six 

Fugitive Pieces

, and of twelve hitherto unprinted poems--forty-eight in all. For references to the distribution of this issue--limited, says Moore, to one hundred copies--see letters to Mr. Pigot and the Earl of Clare, dated January 16, February 6, 1807, and undated letters of the same period to Mr. William Bankes and Mr. Falkner (

Life

, pp. 41, 42). The annotated copy of 

Poems on Various Occasions

, referred to in the present edition, is in the British Museum.


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