The Works
OF
LORD BYRON.
A NEW, REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION,
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
Poetry. Vol. III.
EDITED BY
ERNEST HARTLEY COLERIDGE, M.A.,
HON. F.R.S.L.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.
1900.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
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PREFACE TO THE THIRD VOLUME.
The present volume contains the six metrical taleswhich 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—thevolume as a whole was produced on English soil. Beginningwith the Giaour; which followed in the wake of ChildeHarold and shared its triumph, and ending with the ill-omenedDomestic Pieces, or Poems of the Separation, thepoems which Byron wrote in his own country synchronizewith his popularity as a poet by the acclaim andsuffrages of his own countrymen. His greatest work, bywhich his lasting fame has been established, and bywhich his relative merits as a great poet will be judgedin the