Reading list 1807; reviews 1807-13; speeches 1812-1813; writings 1813-1816; Armenian studies 1816-17; writings 1817-29; the Bowles/Pope controversy 1821; writings 1821-1824; fragmentary writings 1801-24. Appendix: sales catalogues 1816/1827.
All Byron's miscellaneous prose works collected for the first time.
Andrew Nicholson is an independent Byron scholar
`This book should be compulsory reading for all members of
Examination Boards prescribing `A' level set texts. It would be
nice to think school libraries still offered the facilities if not
to foster the creative genius of Byron, at least to stimulate
something of this encylopaedic curiosity.'
David Nokes, The Spectator
`Here is a new Byronic treasure house, brilliantly illuminated. ...
All the necessary qualities are brought to the task ... first-class
scholarship, knowledge of the period, above all a love of Byron,
and all or almost all his works.'
Michael Foot, Guardian
'The editorial apparatus is of the very highest quality ... the
mere endorsement of a letter from Suleyman Aga (1811) is
brilliantly brought alive by the superlative detective work which
extends a mere note into an historical and biographical essay which
is both elegant and lucid ... meticulous, patient, and tactful
scholarship succeeds in spelling out exactly the conditions of
industry in Nottingham and the context in which Byron has to work
in the House
of Lords ... superb edition.'
Malcolm Kelsall, University of Wales, Cardiff, BARS Bulletin &
Review, Issue No.2 February 1992
'The editorial apparatus is of the very highest quality, and is,
paradoxically, at times far better than the original prose ...
superb edition ... The selection and deployment of the scholarly
material is itself the product of critical intuition of the highest
order.'
Malcolm Kelsall, University of Wales, Cardiff, BARS Bulletin &
Review, Issue No. 2, February 1992
'This is a book long awaited and well worth the waiting. The
annotation in the volume, which sets Byron's prose off, cannot be
too highly praised. This is a labour of love and wonderful
erudition by a scholar who knows Byron intimately. All those who
love literature, Byron, and scholarship are in Andrew Nicholson's
debt.'
Bernard Beatty, The Byron Journal 1992
'Andrew Nicholson brings to a close his long labour on the final
instalment of the works of Byron. He and the Clarendon Press can be
thanked for their work.'
Francis Berry, Notes and Queries, March 1993
'Byron's Complete Miscellaneous Prose might be thought a pedant's
delight'
Keith Walker, University College, London, MLR, 88.4, 1993
'the quality of editing is very high, ... this volume completes the
standard, scholarly edition of all Byron's work. It is a fitting,
wel executed capstone. It is wonderful to have a modern, fully
annotated text of Byron's reviews and public letters. Oxford has
produced the book handsomely.'
James Engell. Cambridge, Massechusetts. Archiv
'This attractive and well-arranged volume, ... rounds off the
modern and authoritative presentation of Byron's entire oeuvre ...
The volume has an importance and interest.'
Alan G. Hill. Royal Holloway, University of London. Review of
English Studies Vol. 45 No 179 Aug '94
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