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 of ‘Bright be the place of thy soul,’ by Lady Byron, corrected by Lord Byron, is in the Morrison MSS. 16. ‘Poems on his Domestic Circumstances by Lord Byron,’ Hone, 1816 (includes a ‘Sketch,’ and in later editions a ‘Farewell to Malta’ and ‘Curse of Minerva’ (mutilated); a twenty-third edition in 1817. It also includes ‘O Shame to thee, Land of the Gaul,’ and ‘Mme. Lavalette,’ which, with an ‘Ode to St. Helena,’ ‘Farewell to England,’ ‘On his Daughter's Birthday,’ and ‘The Lily of France,’ are disowned by Byron in letter to Murray 22 July 1816, but are reprinted in some later unauthorised editions. 17. ‘Prisoner of Chillon, and other Poems,’ 1816, 8vo (sonnet to Lake Leman, ‘Though the day of my destiny's over,’ ‘Darkness,’ ‘Churchill's Grave,’ the ‘Dream,’ the ‘Incantation’ (from Manfred), ‘Prometheus’). 18. ‘Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,’ canto iii., 1816, 8vo. 19. ‘Monody on the Death of Sheridan’ (anonymous), 1816, 8vo. 20. ‘Manfred, a Dramatic Poem,’ 1817, 8vo. 21. ‘The Lament of Tasso,’ 8vo, 1817. 22. ‘Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,’ canto iv., 1818 (the Alhama ballad and sonnet from Vittorelli appended). 23. ‘Beppo, a Venetian Story’ (anonymous in early editions), 1818, 8vo. 24. ‘Suppressed Poems’ (Galignani), 1818, 8vo (‘English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,’ ‘Land of the Gaul,’ ‘Windsor Poetics, a Sketch’). 25. Three Poems not included in the works of Lord Byron (Effingham Wilson), 1818, 8vo (‘Lines to Lady J[ersey];’ ‘Enigma on H.,’ often erroneously attributed to Byron, really by Miss Fanshawe; ‘Curse of Minerva,’ fragmentary). 26. ‘Mazeppa,’ 1819 (fragment of the ‘Vampire’ novel appended). 27. ‘Marino Faliero,’ 1820. 28. ‘The Prophecy of Dante,’ 1821 (with ‘Marino Faliero’), 8vo. 29. ‘Sardanapalus, a Tragedy;’ ‘The Two Foscari, a Tragedy;’ ‘Cain, a Mystery’ (in one volume, 8vo), 1821. 30. ‘Letter … on the Rev. W. L. Bowles's Strictures on Pope,’ 1821. 31 ‘Werner, a Tragedy’ (J. Hunt), 1822, 8vo. 32. ‘The Liberal’ (J. Hunt), 1823, 8vo (No. I. ‘Vision of Judgment,’ ‘Letter to the Editor of my Grandmother's Review,’ ‘Epigrams on Castlereagh.’ No. II. ‘Heaven and Earth.’ No. III. ‘The Blues.’ No. IV. ‘Morgante Maggiore’). 33. ‘The Age of Bronze’ (anonymous) (J. Hunt), 1823, 8vo. 34. ‘The Island’ (J. Hunt), 1823, 8vo. 35. ‘The Deformed Transformed’ (J. & H. L. Hunt), 1824, 8vo. 36. ‘Don Juan’ (cantos i. and ii. ‘printed by Thomas Davison,’ 4to, 1819; cantos iii., iv., and v. (Davison), 8vo, 1821; cantos vi., vii., and viii. (for Hunt & Clarke), 8vo, 1823; cantos ix., x., and xi. (for John Hunt), 8vo, 1823; cantos xii., xiii., and xiv. (John Hunt), 8vo, 1823; cantos xv. and xvi. (John & H. L. Hunt), 8vo, 1824), all anonymous. A 17th canto (1829) is not by Byron; and ‘twenty suppressed stanzas’ (1838) are also spurious.

Murray published from 1815 to 1817 a collective edition of works up to those dates in eight volumes 12mo; other collective editions in five volumes 16mo, 1817; and an edition in eight volumes 16mo, 1818–20. In 1824 was published an 8vo volume by Knight & Lacy, called vol. v. of Lord Byron's works, including ‘Hours of Idleness,’ ‘English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,’ the ‘Waltz,’ and various minor poems, several of the spurious poems mentioned under Hone's domestic pieces, and ‘To Jessy,’ a copy of which is in Egerton MS. 2332, as sent to ‘Literary Recreations.’ In 1824 and 1825 the Hunts also published two volumes uniform with the above and called vols. vi. and vii. of Lord Byron's works, including the poems (except ‘Don Juan’) published by them separately as above, and in ‘The Liberal.’ In 1828 Murray published an edition of the works in four volumes 12mo. Uniform with this were published two volumes by J. F. Dove, including ‘Don Juan’ (the whole) and the various pieces in Knight & Lacy's volume, with ‘Lines to Lady Caroline Lamb,’ ‘On my Thirty-sixth Birthday,’ and the lines ‘And wilt thou weep?’

There are various French collections: in 1825 Baudry & Amyot published an 8vo edition in seven volumes at Paris, with a life by J. W. Lake, including all the recognised poems, the letter to Bowles, and the parliamentary speeches (separately printed in London in 1824). Galignani published one-volume 8vo editions in 1828 (with life by Lake), in 1831 (same life abridged), and 1835 (with life by Henry Lytton Bulwer, M.P.). To the edition of 1828 were appended twenty-one ‘attributed poems,’ including ‘Remember thee, remember thee,’ the ‘Triumph of the Whale’ (by Charles Lamb,, Diary (1872), i. 175), and ‘Remind me not, remind me not.’ Most of these were omitted in the edition of 1831, which included (now first printed) the ‘Hints from Horace,’ of which fragments are given in Moore's ‘Life’ (1830).

The collected ‘Life and Works’ published by Murray (1832–5), 8vo, includes all the recognised poems, and adds to the foregoing works a few ‘published for the first time’ (including the second letter to Bowles, and the ‘Observations on Observations’), and several poems which had appeared in other works: ‘River that rollest,’ &c., from Medwin (1824); ‘Verses on his Thirty-sixth Birthday,’