Poetical Works issued by John Murray since 1831, consists of seventy pieces, being the aggregate of the poems published in the three issues, Poems on Various Occasions , Hours of Idleness , and Poems Original and Translated , together with five other poems of the same period derived from other sources. In the present issue a general heading, " Hours of Idleness , and other Early Poems," has been applied to the entire collection of Early Poems , 1802-1809. The quarto has been reprinted (excepting the lines To Mary , which Byron himself deliberately suppressed) in its entirety, and in the original order. The successive additions to the Poems on Various Occasions , Hours of Idleness , and
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