No More Learning

_Collation_--

Title (Imprint as above), pp. 1, 2; Text, pp. 3-31. The Note (altered to
"The other Six follow," etc. ) and the Imprint, as above, are on p. [32].

_Note_. --The additional poem is the _Adieu to Malta_ on pp. 12-14. The
lines _Fare Thee Well_, which are printed in the First and Second
Editions in stanzas, are in the Sixth Edition printed continuously.

IV.

Poems,/ etc. / By Lord Byron. / With His/ Memoirs and Portrait. / Eighth
Edition. / Containing/ Nine Poems. / Fare Thee Well! / A Sketch From
Private Life. / On the Star of "The Legion of Honour. "/ Adieu to Malta. /
The/ Curse of Minerva. / Waterloo. / And Three Others. / London:/ Printed
for W. Hone, 55, Fleet Street,/ etc. / 1816. / [8? .

_Collation_--

Title (R. Imprint as above), pp. 1, 2; Memoirs, etc. , pp. 3-6; Text, pp.
7-32.

_Note_. --The additional poem is the mutilated version of _The Curse of
Minerva_ (111 lines). The Front. is a lithograph of "Lord Byron," after
F. Sieurac.

V.

Poems/ etc. / By Lord Byron,/ etc. / Fifteenth Edition. / Containing/ Nine
Poems,/ etc. / London:/ Printed for W. Hone, 55, Fleet Street,/ etc. /
1816. / [8? .

_Collation_--

Title (R. Imprint as above), pp. 1, 2; Memoirs, etc. , pp. 3-8 + Text,
pp. 8-40.

_Note_. --The Text of the Fifteenth Edition is identical with the Text of
the Sixth Edition (pp. 3-[32]), including Note and Imprint on p. [32].
_The Curse of Minerva_ is on pp. 33-40. The Imprint, as above, is
repeated on the foot of p. 40.

VI. Lord Byron's/ Poems,/ on His Own/ Domestic Circumstances. / Fare Thee
Well. / Dublin:/ Printed by W. Espy, 59, Dame-Street. / 1816. / [8? .

_Collation_--Half-title (Poems, etc. / Entered at Stationers'-Hall. /),
one leaf, pp. 1, 2; Title, one leaf, pp. 3, 4; Preface, pp. 5, 6; Text,
pp. 7-15.

_Note_. --The edition contains _Fare Thee Well_, and _A Sketch_, etc. ,
without the other poems published by Hone.

VII.

Poems/ on His/ Domestic Circumstances,/ etc. etc. / By/ Lord Byron. /
Second Edition. /

1. Fare Thee Well
2. A Sketch from Private Life
3. On the Star of "The Legion of Honour"
4. Ode
5. Waterloo
6. Madame Lavalette
7. Farewell to France
8. Adieu to Malta
9. The Curse of Minerva
10. Farewell to England
11. To my Daughter, etc
12. To the Lily of France.
13. Ode to the Island of St. Helena.
14. To ----.
15. Bright be the Place to thy Soul!
16. Stanzas for Music.
17. To ----.
18. Stanzas for Music.
19. To ----.
20. On Reading Lord Byron's Farewell to England.

To which is Prefixed,/ Memoirs of His Life. / Bristol:/ _Printed for W.
Sheppard, Exchange_,/ And may be had of all the Booksellers. / 1816. /
[12? .

_Collation_--

Title, one leaf, pp. i. , ii. ; Memoirs, etc. , pp. iii. -vi. ; On Reading
Lord Byron's Farewell to England, pp. i. -iii. (R. Cont. ); Text, pp.
1-50. The Imprint (_Mary Bryan, Printer,(51)Corn-Street, Bristol_. ) is
at the foot of p. 50.

_Note_. --This edition contains the nine poems published by Hone (1816),
four forgeries, six of the _Poems_ published by Murray in 1816, and,
with a separate pagination, the lines _On Reading Lord Byron's Farewell
to England_ ("------- Still my bosom's indignation").

VIII.

Poems on His Domestic Circumstances, etc. Boston. 1816. [24? .

[Catalogue of the Boston Athenaeum Library. ]

IX.

Poems,/ etc. / By Lord Byron,/ etc. / Twenty-Third Edition. / Containing/
Nine Poems,/ etc. / London:/ Printed for W. Hone,/ 55, Fleet Street, and
67, Old Bailey,/ (_Three Doors from Ludgate Hill_,)/ And Sold By J. M.
Richardson,/ etc. / 1817/ [8? .

_Collation_--

Pp. 32.

X.

Poems,/ on His/ Domestic Circumstances,/ By/ The Right Honourable/ Lord
Byron:/ To which are added,/ Several Choice Pieces from His Lordship's
Works. / "Lord BIRON. --By heaven I do love; and it hath taught me/ to
rhyme, and to be melancholy; and here is part of my rhyme,/ and here my
melancholy. "/ SHAKESPEARE'S LOVE'S LABOUR LOST. / London:/ Printed for J.
Limbird, 355, Strand, (East End/ of Exeter 'Change),/ By W. Sears, 45,
Gutter Lane, Cheapside. / 1823/ [12? .

_Collation_--

Pp. vi. + 48. The Imprint (_Printed by W. Sears, 45, Gutter Lane,
Cheapside, London_. ) is at the foot of p. 48.

_Note_. --The collection contains twenty-four poems, including the
forgeries, _To my Daughter_, etc. ; _Farewell to England_; _Ode_ ("Oh,
shame to thee," etc. ); and _Madame Lavalette_.

XI.

Miscellaneous Poems,/ Including those on His/ Domestic Circumstances. /
By Lord Byron. / To which are prefixed/ Memoirs of the Author, and a
Tribute/ To his Memory/ By Sir Walter Scott. / London:/ Printed for John
Bumpus, 85, Newgate Street;/ And R. Griffin, & Co. , Glasgow. / 1824/

_Collation_--

Pp. xx. + 21-72. The Imprint (_Printed by A. Hancock, Middle Row Place,
Holborn_. ) is at the foot of p. 72.

_Note_. --The collection numbers twenty-five poems, including the
forgeries, _Ode_ ("Oh, shame to thee," etc. ); _Madame Lavalette_;
_Farewell to England_; _To my Daughter_, etc. ; _Ode to--S^t Helena_;
_To the Lily of France_; _The Enigma_ [H.
]; and three (genuine) stanzas
from the lines, "Well, thou art happy," here entitled _Song to Inez_;
and the lines _To Jessy_.

XII.

Miscellaneous Poems/ on His Domestic and Other/ Circum-stances. / By Lord
Byron. / London:/ Printed By and for William Cole,/ 10 Newgate-Street. /
1825. / [12? .

_Collation_--

Pp. 54. The Imprint (_Printed by William Cole, 10, Newgate Street_. ) is
at the foot of p. 54.

_Note_. --The edition contains twenty-nine pieces, viz. the twenty-five
poems published by John Bumpus in 1824 (No. xl. ), together with _The
Isles of Greece_; _Were my Bosom_, etc. ; _Herod's Lament_, etc. ; and
_Lord Byron's Latest Verses_ ("On this day I complete my thirty-sixth
year").


_Hints from Horace_.

_Note_. --Two sets of proofs of a portion of _Hints from Horace_,
formerly the property of R. C. Dallas, are preserved in the British
Museum (_Eg_. 2029). Proof A consists of 100 lines of the English
translation (lines 173-272); Proof B, pp. [87]-128, consists of 272
lines of the English translation (lines 1-272) and (on opposite pages)
188 lines of the original Latin. These proof-sheets, which must have
followed proofs of the Fifth Edition of _English Bards_, _etc_. , are
preceded by a Half-title, _Hints from Horace_ (Gothic characters), and
by the following subsidiary title:--

Hints from Horace:/ Being a/ Partial Imitation, in English Verse, of the
Epistle,/ "Ad Pisones de Arte Poetica;"/ And intended as a Sequel to/
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. / [Gothic characters. ] "Ergo fungar
vice Cotis, acutum/ Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsa secandi. "/
Hor. De Arte Poet. 304-5. / "Rhymes are difficult things; they are
stubborn things, sir. "/ Fielding's Amelia, Vol. III. / Book and Chap. V. /
Athens, Franciscan Convent,/ March 12, 1811. /

The publication of _Hints from Horace_ had been entrusted by Dallas to
Cawthorn in July-August, 1811. It may be gathered from various sources
(_Letters_, 1898, ii. 24, 54, 56) that Byron was at work on the proofs
as late as September 4; that by October 11 he had resolved to defer the
publication of the _Hints_; and that, accordingly on October 13, 1811,
"they stood still. " It was not, however, till after the appearance of
_Childe Harold's_, _etc_. (May-June, 1812) that Byron determined to
suppress the already printed Fifth Edition of _English Bards_, and at
the same time to abandon the publication of his two other Satires. At
this time, says Dallas (_Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron_, 1898,
p. 241), "the _Hints from Horace_ was far advanced. " In his
_Recollections, etc_. (pp. 104-113), he gives, by way of a "fair
specimen," 156 "lines of the still-unpublished poem; and, as these
extracts are taken from the first 211 lines, and his text corresponds
with proof B (see Poetical Works, 1898, i. 390, variants ii. , iii. ), it
may be inferred that Dallas transcribed them from his fragmentary
proof-sheets, and that the press was stopped at line 272. In 1830, in
his _Notices of the Life of Lord Byron_ (vol. i. pp. 263-269), Moore
printed 165 lines of the "Paraphrase;" but his selections are drawn from
lines 1-458, and it is evident that he had access to an original MS.
(_MS. M. _), which is now in Mr. Murray's possession. The full text,
which follows the same MS. , was first published in vol. v. pp. 273-327
of the six-volume edition of 1831 (_vide ante_, No. xliii. of "Collected
Editions").


_The Irish Avatar_.

Byron wrote the _Irish Avatar_ at Ravenna, September 16, 1821. On the
17th he sent a copy of the verses to Moore, then resident at Paris; and
on September 20 he desired Moore to get "twenty copies of the whole
carefully and privately printed off. " A copy is in the possession of Mr.
H. Buxton Forman, C. B. , and I am indebted to his kindness for the
following description: "The pamphlet consists of four 8vo leaves, viz.
half-title ('The Irish Avatar,' in bold capitals, with blank verse), pp.
[1], [2] + Text, pp. 3-8. The poem begins on the third page with a
dropped head, 'The Irish Avatar' again, and the first four verses. Pp.
4-7 contain six verses each, and p. 8 the remaining four, making up
thirty-two in all. The date at the end of p. 8 is 'September 16, 1821. '
There is no title-page proper; a headline, 'The Irish Avatar,' occurs on
pp. 4-8, which pages are numbered in Arabic figures in the outside
corners, and the thirty-two stanzas are also numbered in Arabic figures.
The poem is printed on a half-sheet of a peculiar fine-ribbed paper. "
Twenty stanzas of _The Irish Avatar_ were printed by Medwin in
_Conversations of Lord Byron_, 1824, pp. 216-220, and in a second
edition, 1824, pp. 332-338. In a "new edition" of the _Conversations,
etc. _, 1824, pp. 264-270, the entire poem, numbering thirty-two stanzas,
was published for the first time in England (see _Athenaeum_, July 27,
1901). _The Irish Avatar_ was first published by Murray in 1831 (Works,
vi. 419-425).


_The Island_.

I.

The Island,/ or/ Christian and His Comrades. / By the/ Right Hon. Lord
Byron. / London, 1823:/ Printed for John Hunt,/ 22, Old Bond Street. /
[8? .

_Collation_--

Half-title (R. _London: Printed by C. H. Riynell, Broad-Street,
Golden-Square_), pp. 1, 2, Title, one leaf, pp. 3, 4; Author's Advt. ,
p. 6; Text, pp. 7-79 + Appendix, pp. 81-94. The Imprint, as above, is at
the foot of p. 94.

_Note_. --A Second and a Third Edition, identical with the First, were
published by John Hunt in 1823. _The Island_ forms part (pp. 193-244) of
a collection of Miscellaneous Poems, _Hebrew Melodies, The Deformed
Transformed_, etc. , printed and published by W. Dugdale, 23, Russell
Court, Drury Lane, in 1825.

II.

The Island;/ or/ Christian and His Comrades. / By The Right Hon. Lord
Byron. / Paris:/ Published by A. and W. Galignani,/ At the French,
English, Italian, German, and Spanish Library,/ No. 18, Rue Vivienne. /
1823/ [12? .

_Collation_--

Half-title (R. _Paris: Printed by A. Belin_), one leaf; Title, one leaf;
Second Half-title, pp. 1, 2; Author's Advt. , pp. 3, 4; Text + App. , pp.
5-95.

III.

_The Island, or Christian and His Comrades_. New York. 1823. [12? .

[Cat. of Books in Bates Hall of Pub. Library of Boston. ]


_Translations of The Island_.

_German_.

_Die Insel_, ober Christian u. seine Kameraden. Aus d. Engl. (v. F. L.
Breuer). Mit gegenubersteh. Originaltext. Leipzig, Brockhaus. 1827. [8? .

[Kayser, 1834. ]


_Italian_.

_L'Isola_, poema di lord Byron, traduzione di Morrone. Napoli,
tipographia di De Muro, 1840. [8? .

[_Bibliographia Italiana_, Oct. , 1840. ]

_Polish_.

Wyspa czyli Chrystyan i jego towarzysze . . . Przek? ad Adama Pajgerta. pp.
62, _druk. "Czasu": Krakow_, 1859. [8? .

_Swedish_.

On/ Eller/. . Christian och Hans Stallbroder. / Af/ Lord Byron. /
Ofversattning. [Af/ Talis Qualis. ] Stockholm,/ J. L. Brudins Forlag. /
[1856. ] [8? .

_Collation_--

Pp. 88.

_Note_.