The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3

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The present volume contains the six metrical tales which were composed within the years 1812 and 1815, the Hebrew Melodies , and the minor poems of 1809-1816. With the exception of the first fifteen poems (1809-1811)— Chansons de Voyage , as they might be called—the volume as a whole was produced on English soil. Beginning with the Giaour ; which followed in the wake of Childe Harold and shared its triumph, and ending with the ill-omened Domestic Pieces , or Poems of the Separation , the poems which Byron wrote in his own country synchronize with his popularity as a poet by the acclaim and suffrages of his own countrymen. His greatest work, by which his lasting fame has been established, and by which his relative merits as a great poet will be judged in the future, was yet to come; but the work which made his name, which is stamped with his sign-manual, and which has come to be regarded as distinctively and characteristically Byronic, preceded maturity and achievement.