NB. As the title indicates, this is a
chronology of Byron’s works; the life is reduced to a few key events. The man
who emerges from the works is considered a great deal more important than the
man as he appeared outwardly to the world. The writings are more important than
the doings. All dates are taken from the Coleridge edition of the poetical (7 vols.,
1898–1904) or the Marchand one of the letters and journals (12 vols.,
1972–83). Short poems are given with the dates they were signed with; if
only the year is known, the poems are listed in the end of it. For longer
poems, dates of beginning, progress and completion are given as accurately as
they are known. Places of writing are added when known with certainty. First
editions are in blue to distinguish them easily from dates of writing and other
entries. Additions to later editions by LB are also marked in blue. For more
info on bibliographical matters, see here.
1788
·
Jan
22. Born, London.
1790
·
Moves
to Aberdeen with his mother. Childhood in Scotland. Attends Aberdeen Grammar
School (1794-8).
1791
·
Jan
22. 3rd birthday.
·
Aug
2. Father John “Mad Jack” Byron dies in France.
1798
·
Jan
22. 10th birthday.
·
May
21. Uncle William Byron (the
Wicked Lord) dies. Becomes 6th Baron Byron.
1801
·
Apr.
Enters Harrow.
1802
·
Nov.
“To E----”.
·
n.d.
“On the Death of a Young Lady, Cousin to the Author, and very dear to him”
1803
·
Jan
22. 15th birthday.
·
Feb.
“To D----”
·
n.d.
“Elegy on Newstead Abbey”, “On Leaving Newstead Abbey”, “Epitaph on a Beloved
Friend” (Harrow), “When, to their airy hall, my Fathers’ voice”.
1804
·
Jan
22. 16th birthday.
·
Jul.
“Reply to an Italian nun” (“Dear simple girl...”).
·
Dec
1. School exercise from the “Prometheus Vinctus” of Aeschylus, Harrow.
1805
·
Jan
22. 17th birthday.
·
Jul.
“On Change of Masters at a Great Public School”, Harrow.
·
Jul.
Leaves Harrow after four years of attendance.
·
Oct.
Enters Trinity College, Cambridge.
·
n.d.
“To Caroline” (“Think’st thou I saw thy beauteous eyes”), “To Caroline” (“Oh!
when shall the grave hide for ever my sorrow?”), “To Caroline” (“When I hear you
express an affection so warm”), “To Emma”, “To Caroline” (“You say you love,
and yet your eye”, unknown year, possibly also 1805), “To the Duke of Dorset”,
Translation from Anacreon (Ode 5), Ossian's Address to the Sun in “Carthon”, “A
Woman’s Hair”.
1806
·
Jan
22. 18th birthday.
·
Oct
9. “To Eliza”, Southwell.
·
Oct
26. “The Tear”.
·
Oct
27. “Reply to Some Verses of J. M. B. Pigot, Esq., on the Cruelty of His
Mistress”.
·
Oct
28. “Granta: A Medley”.
·
Oct.
“On the Death of Mr. Fox”, Southwell.
·
Nov
7. “To M---”.
·
Nov
16. “Imitated from Catullus: To Ellen”.
·
Nov
26. “Answer to Some Elegant Verses Sent by a Friend to the Author, Complaining
that One of His Descriptions was Rather Too Warmly Drawn”.
·
Nov.
Fugitive Pieces privately printed and
suppressed.
·
Dec
1. “To a Knot of Ungenerous Critics”.
·
Dec
23. “The First Kiss of Love”.
·
Dec
29. “L’amité est l’amour sans ailes”.
·
Dec.
“Soliloquy of a Bard in the Country”; “The Prayer of Nature”.
·
n.d.
“Adrian’s to His Soul when Dying” (trans. of Hadrian’s Latin), “On a Distant
View of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill”, “Thoughts Suggested by a
College Examination”, “To a Beautiful Quaker”, “To Lesbia”, “Answer to a
Beautiful Poem, Written by Montgomery”, “Lines Addressed to the Rev. J. T.
Becher on His Advising the Author to Mix More with Society”, “Fragment, Written
Shortly After the Marriage of Miss Chaworth”, “Remembrance”, “To A Lady, Who
Presented the Author with the Velvet Band which Bound her Tresses”.
1807
·
Jan
10. “To Marion”.
·
Jan
14. “On the Eyes of Miss A--- H---”.
·
Jan
15. “To a Vain Lady”.
·
Jan
16. “To Anne” (“Oh, Anne, your offences to me have been grievous”).
·
Jan
22. 19th birthday.
·
Jan.
“To ---”.
·
Jan.
Poems on Various Occasions (48
poems). Anonymous, privately printed, 36 poems from the suppressed Fugitive Pieces (Nov 1806).
·
Mar
8. “To the Author of a Sonnet”.
·
Jun. Hours of Idleness, 1st
edn. 1st officially published work (39 poems).
·
Sep
2. “Lines Written Beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow”.
·
Sep.
“On Revisiting Harrow”.
·
n.d.
“To the Earl of Clare”, “The Adieu, Written under the Impression that the
Author Would Soon Die”, “To Anne” (“Oh say not, sweet Anne, that the Fates have
decreed”), “On Finding a Fan”, “Farewell to the Muse”, “To an Oak at Newstead”,
“To My Son”.
1808
·
Jan
22. 20th birthday.
·
Feb
23. Song (“Breeze of the night in gentler sighs”).
·
Jun
10. “There Was a Time, I Need
not Name”.
·
Aug
12. “And Wilt Thou Weep When I Am Low?”.
·
Aug
13. “Remind Me Not, Remind Me Not”.
·
Aug
20. “To a Youthful Friend”.
·
Sep.
Takes residence at Newstead Abbey.
·
Oct
30. “Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog”, Newstead Abbey.
·
Nov
2. “Well! Thou Art Happy”.
·
Oct-Nov.
Works on English Bards and Scotch
Reviewers.
·
Dec
2. “To a Lady, On Being Asked My Reason for Quitting England in the Spring”.
·
n.d.
“Lines Inscribed upon a Cup from a Skull”, Newstead Abbey.
·
n.d. Poems Original and
Translated, 2nd edn. of Hours
of Idleness (38 poems, 5 published for the 1st time).
1809
·
Jan
22. 21st birthday.
·
Mar. English Bards and Scotch
Reviewers, 1st edn. (696 lines).
·
Spring/summer.
Prepares 2nd edn. of English
Bards.
·
Jul
2. Sails from Falmouth on the Lisbon packet Princess
Elizabeth.
·
Jul
7. Arrives in Lisbon.
·
Jul
12-16. Visits Cintra.
·
Jul
20. Leaves Lisbon on horseback for Seville.
·
Jul
25. Arrives in Seville.
·
Jul
29. Arrives in Cadiz.
·
Jun
30. “Lines to Mr Hodgson”.
·
Aug
4. Arrives in Gibraltar.
·
Aug
16. Sails from Gibraltar on the Townshend
Packet.
·
Aug
31. Arrives in Malta. Affair with Mrs Spencer Smith (“Florence”).
·
Sep
14. “Lines written in an Album, at Malta”.
·
Sep
19. Sails from Malta in brig-of-war Spider.
·
Sep
23. Between Kefallonia and Zakynthos (Ionian Islands).
·
Sep
26. Anchor off Patras.
·
Sep
27. Between Ithaca and the mainland.
·
Sep
29. Lands at Prevesa.
·
Sep.
“To Florence”.
·
Oct
1. Leaves Prevesa for Janina (modern Greece); “Stanzas composed during a
Thunderstorm”.
·
Oct
5. Arrives in Janina.
·
Oct
11. Leaves Janina for Tepeleni (modern Albania).
·
Oct
19. Arrives in Tepeleni.
·
Oct
20. Received by Ali Pacha.
·
Oct
23. Leaves Tepeleni for Janina.
·
Oct
26. Arrives in Janina.
·
Oct
31. Begins Childe Harold, Canto I,
Janina, Albania.
·
Oct. English Bards and Scotch
Reviewers, 2nd edn. (1050 lines).
·
Nov
3. Leaves Janina for Prevesa.
·
Nov
8. Arrives in Prevesa.
·
Nov
8. Leaves Prevesa, anchors off Parga.
·
Nov
10 – Dec 25. Roams around Greece by land and sea, including the Ambracian Gulf,
the Gulf of Corinth, Missolonghi, Thebes and Delphi.
·
Nov
14. “Stanzas written in passing the Ambracian Gulf”.
·
Dec
25. Arrives in Athens.
·
Dec
30. Finishes the first canto of Childe
Harold.
·
n.d.
“Stanzas to a Lady, on Leaving England”; “The Girl of Cadiz” (replaced with “To
Inez” in Child Harold); “To Dives: A
Fragment”.
1810
·
Jan
13. Visits Eleusis.
·
Jan
16. Visits Mount Pentelicus.
·
Jan
16. “The Spell is broke, the Charm is flown!”.
·
Jan
19. Leaves Athens, arrives in Vari.
·
Jan
22. 22nd birthday.
·
Jan
23. Visits the temple of Athena in Sunium (Sounion).
·
Jan
25. Visits the plain of Marathon.
·
Jan
25. “To Inez”; incorporated into Childe Harold,
I, 84-85.
·
Jan
26. Returns to Athens.
·
Mar
5. Leaves Athens aboard the sloo-of-war Pylades.
·
Mar
8. Arrives in Smyrna (modern Turkey, west coast).
·
Mar
13. Leaves Smyrna.
·
Mar
15. Visits the temple of Artemis at Ephesus.
·
Mar
16. Leaves Ephesus, returns to Smyrna.
·
Mar
28. Finishes Childe Harold, Canto II,
Smyrna.
·
Apr
11. Sails from Smyrna on the frigate Salsette.
·
Apr
12. Anchors off Tenedos, an island near the Hellespont.
·
Apr
13. Visits the ruins of Alexandria Troas.
·
Apr
16. Attempts to swim the Hellespont, explores the Troad.
·
May
3. Swims the Hellespont together with Mr Ekenhead.
·
May
9. “Written after swimming from Sestos to Abydos”.
·
May
13. Arrives in Constantinople.
·
Jun.
Translation of the Nurse’s Dole in the Medea
of Euripides.
·
Jul
10. An Ambassador’s audience with Sultan Mahmoud II.
·
Jul
14. Sails from Constantinople on the frigate Salsette.
·
Jul
18. Returns to Athens.
·
Jul
21. Leaves for Morea.
·
Jul
26. Arrives at Patras.
·
Aug.
Visits Veli Pasha, Tripolitza.
·
Sep.
Second excursion to Morea
·
Oct
13. Returns to Athens.
·
Oct.
“My Epitaph”.
·
n.d.
“Lines in the Travellers’ Book at Orchomenus”; “Maid of Athens, ere we part”; “Substitute
for an Epitaph”.
1811
·
Jan
22. 23rd birthday.
·
Jan.
“Lines written beneath a Picture”.
·
Mar
11-14. Hints form Horace (844 lines
final version, some lines added in Jun), Capuchin Convent, Athens.
·
Mar
17. “The Curse of Minerva” (312 lines), Capuchin Convent, Athens.
·
Mar.
“On Parting”.
·
Apr
22. Sails from Greece on the Hydra.
·
Apr
30. Arrives in Malta.
·
Jun
2. Leaves Malta for England on the frigate Volage.
·
Jul
14. Lands at Sheerness. Divides time between London and Newstead.
·
May
16. “Epitaph for Joseph Blacket, late Poet and Shoemaker”.
·
May
26. “Farewell to Malta”.
·
Aug
1. Mother dies.
·
Aug
26. “Newstead Abbey”.
·
Sep
14. “On Moore’s Last Operatic Farce, or Farcical Opera”.
·
Oct
11. “To Thyrza”; “Epistle to a Friend”.
·
Dec
8. “Away, away, ye Notes of Woe!”.
·
n.d.
“Well! Thou art happy”.
·
n.d. English Bards and Scotch
Reviewers, 5th edn. (1070 lines, final version).
1812
·
Jan
22. 24th birthday.
·
Feb
27. Maiden speech in House of Lords.
·
Mar 10. Childe Harold I
& II, 1st edn. + 14 poems. Final version reached in 7th
edn. (Feb 1814): 93+109 stanzas, 836+926 = 1762 lines.
·
Apr 17. Childe Harold I
& II, 2nd edn. + 6 new poems (20 all).
·
Apr.
Begins liaison with Lady Caroline Lamb.
·
Jun
27. Childe Harold I & II, 3rd
edn.
·
Sep 14. Childe Harold I
& II, 4th edn., “Addition to the Preface”.
·
Oct.
“The Waltz”.
·
Dec
5. Childe Harold I & II, 5th
edn.
·
n.d.
“On the Quotation”; “To the Honble. Mrs. George Lamb”.
1813
·
Jan
15. “By the Rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept”; “Herod’s Lament for
Mariamne”.
·
Jan
22. 25th birthday.
·
Mar.
Writes 1st version of The
Giaour. “The Waltz” privately printed.
·
May
19. To Thomas Moore (“Oh you, who in all names can tickle the town”).
·
Spring. “The Waltz” (257 lines), 1st edn. Anonymous.
·
Jun
2. “On Lord Thurlow’s Poems”.
·
Jun 5. The Giaour, 1st
edn. (685 lines).
·
Aug
11. Childe Harold I & II, 6th
edn.
·
Aug.
Liaison with Augusta.
·
Sep.
“Impromptu, in Reply to a Friend”.
·
Nov
13. Begins keeping 1st journal. Until 19 Apr 1814.
·
Nov 27. The Giaour, 7th
edn. (1334 lines, final version).
·
Nov 29. The Bride of Abydos (2
cantos, 1215 lines), 1st edn. Four editions more until the end of
the year: 8 lines added to Canto II (483+732 lines).
·
Nov.
Writes The Bride of Abydos.
·
Dec. The Bride of Abydos (2
cantos, 1215 lines), 1st edn.
·
Dec
9. “The Devil’s Drive”.
·
Dec
17. Sonnets to Genevra (2 poems).
·
Dec
18. Begins The Corsair.
·
n.d.
“Remember him, whom Passion’s Power”.
1814
·
Jan
22. 26th birthday.
·
Feb 1. The Corsair, 1st
edn. (1859 lines). 10 000
copies sold on the first day. Six editions more
until the end of the year. Notes, 6 poems, 4 lines to stanza xi, and an
unnumbered note to line 226 added to the original.
·
Feb 1. Childe Harold I
& II, 7th edn. 10 additional stanzas to Canto II (109 all), Dedication
“To Ianthe” (45 lines) & 14 new poems (34 all).
·
Feb
1. The Bride of Abydos, 6th
edn.
·
Feb
1. The Giaour, 9th edn.
·
Mar.
Sits to Thomas Phillips for a portrait.
·
Apr 18. “Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte”, 1st edn. (15
stanzas, 135 lines). 1 stanza inserted between 2nd and 12th
editions. The last three stanzas (xvii, xviii, xix) printed only after LB’s
death in 1831; first appended to the poem in 1832 (final version: 19 stanzas,
171 lines).
·
May
4. Stanzas for Music (“I speak not, I trace not...”).
·
May
14. Begins Lara.
·
May
29. “Condolatory Address”.
·
May.
“Address intended to be recited at the Caledonian Meeting”.
·
Jun
12. “She Walks in Beauty”.
·
Jun.
“Fragment of an Epistle to Thomas Moore”.
·
Jun.
Completes Lara.
·
Aug 6. Lara (2 cantos,
1272 lines), 1st edn. Anonymously with “Jacqueline” (not by LB).
·
Sep
9. Proposes to Annabella Milbanke.
·
Sep
18. Annabella accepts his proposal.
·
Oct
7. “Elegiac Stanzas on the Death of Sir Peter Parker, Bart.”.
·
Oct.
Begins Hebrew Melodies.
·
Dec
12. “Julian (A Fragment)”.
·
Dec
24. Leaves for Seaham.
·
Dec
30. Arrives at Seaham.
·
n.d. The Corsair, 9th
edn., long note to the last line.
·
n.d.
“Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte”; “Ich Dien”; “Answer to –‘s Professions of
Affection”.
1815
·
Jan
2. Marries Annabella Milbanke, Seaham.
·
Jan
22. 27th birthday.
·
Feb
12. “To Belshazzar”.
·
Feb
17. “The Destruction of Sennacherib”.
·
Mar
27. “On Napoleon’s Escape from Elba”.
·
Mar.
Stanzas for Music (“There’s not a joy the world...”).
·
Apr.
“Oh! snatched away in Beauty’s Bloom”.
·
Jun
25. “Napoleon’s Farewell”.
·
Apr. Hebrew Melodies (24
pieces), 1st edn.
·
Oct.
Writes The Siege of Corinth.
·
Nov.
Sends Murray the MS of The Siege of
Corinth.
·
Nov.
Writes Parisina.
·
Dec.
Sends Parisina to the publisher.
·
Dec
10. Daughter Augusta Ada born.
·
n.d.
“Song of Saul before the Last Battle”; “Were my Bosom as False as thou deem’st
it to be”; “By the Waters of Babylon”; “On the Day of the Destruction of
Jerusalem by Titus”; “All is Vanity, saith the Preacher”; “When Coldness wraps
this Suffering Clay”; “Saul”.
1816
·
Jan
22. 28th birthday.
·
Feb 7. The Siege of Corinth
(1079 lines) & Parisina (586
lines), 1st edn.
·
Apr
21. Separates from his wife.
·
Apr
25. Leaves England for good.
·
Apr.
Visits Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp.
·
May
1-6. Begins Childe Harold, Canto III,
Brussels.
·
May
4. Visits the field of Waterloo.
·
May
8. At Cologne.
·
May
10-16. Rhine journey: Bonn, Coblenz, Castle of Drachenfels, Mannheim.
·
May
16-18. At Karlsruhe.
·
May
20. At Basle.
·
May
25. Arrives in Sécheron, near Geneva.
·
May
27. Meets Shelley for the first time.
·
Jun
10. Moves to Villa Diodati, a few hundred yards from the Shelleys.
·
Jun
22. Begins a tour of Lake Geneva with Shelley: Meillerie, Clarens, Vevey,
Chateau de Chillon, Gibbon’s house.
·
Jun
27. Completes Childe Harold, Canto
III, Ouchy, near Lausanne.
·
Jul
1. Returns to Villa Diodati.
·
Jul
10. Completes “Prisoner of Chillon”.
·
Jul
18. “Monody on the Death of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan”.
·
Jul
24. Stanzas to Augusta (“Though the day of my Destiny’s over”).
·
Jul.
“The Dream” (206 lines), Villa Diodati; “Darkness” (82 lines); “Prometheus” (59 lines); Sonnet to Lake Leman; “A
Fragment”.
·
Aug
29. Leaves for a tour of Chamouni and Mont Blanc.
·
Sep
1. Back at Villa Diodati.
·
Sep
17-29. Tour of Bernese Oberland.
·
Sep
17-29. Keeps 2nd journal, aka Alpine
Journal.
·
Sep.
“Lines on hearing that Lady Byron was Ill”.
·
Sep-Oct.
Writes first two acts of Manfred.
·
Oct
5. Leaves for Italy.
·
Oct
12. Arrives in Milan.
·
Nov
10. Arrives in Venice. Lives there for the next almost three years.
·
Nov 18. Childe Harold III
(122 stanzas, 1102 lines), 1st edn.
·
Nov 25. “On the Bust of Helen by Canova”.
·
Dec 5. “Prisoner of Chillon” (392 lines) and 7 poems, 1st
edn.
·
Dec 6. “Venice: A Fragment”.
·
Dec 24. “Song for the Luddites”; To Thomas Moore” (“What are you
doing now”).
·
n.d. “Churchill’s Grave”; “To George Anson Byron”.
1817
·
Jan
12. Daughter Allegra born (from Claire Clarirmont).
·
Jan
22. 29th birthday.
·
Jan-Feb.
Takes part in the Venetian Carnival. Completes Manfred.
·
Feb
28. “So we’ll go no more a-roving”.
·
Mar
25. “Versicles”; “To Mr Murray” (“To hook the Reader, you, John Murray”).
·
Apr
17. Leaves Venice for Rome through Ferrara, Bologna and Florence.
·
Apr
20. “The Lament of Tasso” (247 lines).
·
Apr
29. Arrives in Rome.
·
May.
Sits for bust by Thorwaldsen.
·
May
5. Finishes rewriting Act 3 of Manfred.
·
May
19. Witnesses public execution by guillotine of three robbers.
·
May
20. Leaves Rome for Venice.
·
May
28. Arrives in Venice.
·
Jun
4. Rents Villa Foscarini at La Mira on Brenta river.
·
Jun 16. Manfred (3 acts,
1338 lines), 1st edn.
·
Jun
26. Begins Childe Harold, Canto IV. 1st
draft finished in 26 days [Coleridge] or one month and three days [Marchand].
·
Jul 17. “The Lament of Tasso” (247 lines), 1st edn.
·
Jul
20 [Coleridge] or Jul 29 [Marchand]. Completes Childe Harold, Canto IV, 1st draft (126 stanzas). The
other 60 stanzas added mostly until the end of 1817, but at least two had to
wait until spring 1818.
·
Jul.
“To Thomas Moore” (“My boat is on the shore”).
·
Aug
21. “Epistle from Mr Murray to Dr Polidori”.
·
Oct
23. Announces to Murray the completion of Beppo.
·
Nov
13. Returns to Venice from La Mira.
1818
·
Jan
8. “Epistle to Mr Murray” (“My dear Mr Murray”).
·
Jan
19. Sends the MS of Beppo to Murray.
·
Jan
22. 30th birthday.
·
Feb 18 [Coleridge] or Feb 28 [Marchand]. Beppo (95 stanzas, 760 lines), 1st edn.
·
Feb
20. “On the Birth of John William Rizzo Hoppner”.
·
Feb.
“E Nihilo Nihil”.
·
Apr
6. Lady Melbourne dies.
·
Apr
11. “To Mr Murray” (“Strahan, Tonson, Lintot of the times”); “Another Simple
Ballat”; Ballad (to the tune of “Salley in our alley”).
·
Apr 28. Childe Harold IV
(186 stanzas, 1674 lines), 1st edn.
·
May 5. Beppo (99 stanzas,
792 lines), 5th edn. Stanzas 28, 38, 39, 80 added.
·
May.
Rents Palazzo Mocenigo on Grand Canal.
·
Jul
3. Begins Don Juan, Canto I [Coleridge].
·
Jul
10. Completes “Ode to Venice” (160 lines).
·
Aug
23. Rides with Shelley on the Venice Lido.
·
Sep
6. Begins Don Juan, Canto I, Venice
[Marchand].
·
Sep
19. Don Juan, Dedication (136 lines).
·
Nov
1. Completes Don Juan, Canto I.
·
Dec
29. “The Duel”.
·
Dec–Jan
1819. Don Juan, Canto II.
·
n.d.
“Verses on Sam Rogers”.
1819
·
Jan
22. 31st birthday.
·
Jun
1. Leaves Venice for Ravenna to visit the Guicciolis.
·
Jun
10. Arrives in Ravenna via Bologna and Ferrara.
·
Jun 28. Mazeppa (20 sections,
869 lines), 1st edn.
·
Jun.
Writes The Prophecy of Dante, Ravenna
[Coleridge].
·
Jun.
“Stanzas to the Po”.
·
Jun-Jul.
In love with Teresa Guiccioli.
·
Jul 15. Don Juan I &
II (3504 lines), 1st edn. Anonymous.
·
Jul
31. “Sonnet on the Nuptials of the Marquis Antonio Cavalli with the Countess
Clelia Rasponi of Ravenna”.
·
Aug
12. “Sonnet to the Prince Regent”; Epigram (from the French of Rulhieres).
·
Sep-Oct.
With Teresa at La Mira.
·
Nov.
Count Guiccioli takes away his wife to Ravenna.
·
Dec
1. Stanzas (“Could Love for ever”).
·
Dec
24. Arrives at Ravenna.
·
Winter
1819/20. Don Juan, Cantos III &
IV.
1820
·
Jan
2. “On My Wedding-Day”; “Epitaph for William Pitt”; “Epitaph” (“Posterity will
ne’er survey”); “Epigram on Tom Paine”.
·
Jan
22. 32nd birthday.
·
Feb.
Moves to Palazzo Guiccioli.
·
Mar.
Finishes The Prophecy of Dante
[Marchand].
·
Feb
19. Sends Don Juan Canto II and III
to Murray.
·
Feb
21. Completes translation of 1st canto to Pulci’s Morgante Maggiore.
·
Mar
20. “Francesca of Rimini” (translation of Dante).
·
Mar
22. Epilogue (“There’s something in a stupid ass”).
·
Mar
23. “My Boy Hobbie O”.
·
Mar.
Becomes cavalier servente of Teresa.
·
Apr
9. “Lines, addressed to Hobhouse on his election for Westminster”.
·
Jul.
Finishes Marino Faliero.
·
Sep
28. “A Volume of Nonsense”.
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Oct-Nov.
Don Juan, Canto V.
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Nov
5. “To Penelope”; Stanzas (“When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home”).
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Dec
10. “The Charity Ball”.
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Dec
28. Sends Kinnaird Don Juan, Canto V.
1821
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Jan
4. Begins keeping Ravenna Journal.
Until Feb 17.
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Jan
6. “Epigram on the Brazier’s address”.
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Jan
13. Begins Sardanapalus, Ravenna.
Finished May 27 [Marchand] or 28 [Coleridge].
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Jan
22. 33rd birthday. “On My Thirty-third Birthday”.
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Feb
22. “Bowles and Campbell”.
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Apr 21. Marino Faliero (5
acts, 3493 lines) & The Prophecy of
Dante (4 cantos, 670 lines), 1st edn.
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May 7. The Vision of
Judgement started and left off.
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May 25. “Elegy”.
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May 28. Completes Sardanapalus.
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Jun 12. Begins The Two
Foscari, Ravenna. Done in less than a month.
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Jul 9. Completes The Two
Foscari.
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July 16. Begins Cain,
Ravenna. Finished Sep 9.
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Jul 30. “Who killed John Keats?”.
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Aug 2. “From the French: Aegle, beauty and poet...”.
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Aug 8. Don Juan III, IV
& V (3192 lines), 1st edn.
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Aug 23. “To Mr Murray” (“For Orford and for Waldegrave”).
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Aug. Writes “The Blues” (325 lines).
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Sep 9. Completes Cain.
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Sep 16. “The Irish Avatar”.
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Sep. The Vision of Judgement
resumed.
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Oct 4. The Vision of
Judgement completed.
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Oct 9. Begins Heaven and
Earth, Ravenna. Done in couple of weeks.
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Oct 15. Begins keeping 4th journal, Detached Thoughts. Until 18 May 1822.
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Nov 1. Arrives at Pisa. Lives there till 28 Sep 1822.
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Nov 6. “Stanzas written on the Road between Florence and Pisa”.
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Nov 9. Heaven and Earth
sent to Murray. He delays publication. LB finally gives it to Hunt who does
publish it (1 Jan 1823).
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Dec 18. Begins Werner,
Pisa. Completed in a month.
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Dec 19. Sardanapalus (5
acts, 2832 lines), The Two Foscari (5
acts, 1981 lines) & Cain (3 acts,
1794 lines), 1st edn.
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n.d.
“Napoleon’s Snuff-box”; Martial, Lib. I, Epig. 1.
1822
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Jan
20. Completes Werner.
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Jan
22. 34th birthday.
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Apr
20. Daughter Allegra dies.
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Apr-Jul.
Writes The Deformed Transformed,
completed in Pisa.
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Jun.
Begins Don Juan, Canto VI. Completes
Canto XVI by Mar 1823!
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Jul
8. Shelley drowned in Bay of Spezia.
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Jul
16. Witnesses the cremation of Shelley’s remains, Viareggio.
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Aug.
Epigrams (“Oh, Castlereagh! thou art a patriot now”).
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Sep
27. Leaves for Genoa.
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Oct
3? Arrives in Albaro (Genoa), stays at Casa Saluzzo.
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Oct 15. The Vision of Judgement
(106 stanzas, 848 lines), 1st edn., The Liberal, No. 1, pp. 3-39.
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Nov 23. Werner (5 acts,
3223 lines), 1st edn.
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Dec
14. Sends Don Juan, Canto XII, to
Kinnaird. Seven cantos (VI to XII) wait for publication.
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Dec.
Begins The Age of Bronze.
1823
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Jan 1. Heaven and Earth
(3 parts, 1192 lines), 1st edn., The
Liberal, No. II, pp. 165-206.
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Jan
10 [Marchand] or 18 [Coleridge]. Completes The
Age of Bronze.
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Jan
22. 35th birthday.
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Feb 20. The Deformed
Transformed (3 parts, 1392 lines), 1st edn.
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Jan-Feb.
Writes The Island.
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Feb
14. Completes The Island.
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Mar
9. “The Conquest”.
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Apr 1. The Age of Bronze (18
sections, 778 lines), 1st edn. Anonymous.
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Apr 26. “The Blues” (365 lines), 1st edn.
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Apr.
Impromptu (“Beneath Blessington’s eyes”).
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May
6. Completes Don Juan, Canto XVI.
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Jun
19. “Journal in Cephalonia”.
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Jun 26. The Island (4
cantos, 1425 lines), 1st edn.
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Jul 15. Don Juan VI, VII
& VIII (2784 lines), 1st edn. Original Preface.
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Jul
16. Leaves for Greece on the brig Hercules.
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Aug
3. Lands at Argostoli, Cephalonia, Greece.
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Aug
11. Leaves to visit Ithaca.
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Aug 29. Don Juan IX, X
& XI (2096 lines), 1st edn.
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Sep
4. Moves to Metaxata, Cephalonia.
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Sep
10. “Aristomenes”.
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Sep
28-30. 5th and last journal in Cephalonia.
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Dec 17. Don Juan XII,
XIII & XIV (2416 lines), 1st edn.
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Dec
30. Arrives in Zante in the morning, sails for Missolonghi in the evening.
1824
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Jan
4. Lands at Missolonghi.
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Jan
22. 36th birthday. “On this Day I complete my Thirty-sixth Year”.
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Mar 23. Don Juan XV &
XVI (1824 lines), 1st edn.
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Apr
9. Writes his last letter, to Barff and Barry.
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Apr
19. Dies, Missolonghi, Greece.
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Oct
29. “On this Day I complete my Thirty-sixth Year” published in the Morning Chronicle.
