Poems Original and Translated

, follow in order of publication. The remainder of the series, viz. poems first published in Moore's 

Life and Journals of Lord Byron

 (1830); poems hitherto unpublished; poems first published in the 

Works of Lord Byron

 (1832), and poems contributed to J. C. Hobhouse's 

Imitations and Translations

 (1809), have been arranged in chronological order. (For an important contribution to the bibliography of the quarto of 1806, and of the other issues of Byron's Juvenilia, see papers by Mr. R. Edgcumbe, Mr. H. Buxton Forman, C.B., and others, in the 

Athenæum

, 1885, vol. ii. pp. 731-733, 769; and 1886, vol. i. p. 101, etc. For a collation of the contents of the four first issues and of certain large-paper copies of 

Hours of Idleness

, etc., see 

The Bibliography of the Poetical Works of Lord Byron

, 

vol. vi. of the present edition

.)

 

 

 

 

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