Poems.
"Fare thee well! and if for ever - still for ever, fare the well": First edition, first printing of Lord Byron's Poems
Poems.
BYRON, Lord George Gordon.
Item Number: 88155
London: Printed for John Murray by W. Bulmer and Co. , 1816.
First edition, first issue of 1816 book of ten poems including Fare Thee Well. Octavo, contemporary half morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition.
"Byron is to a far greater degree than the other romanticists the poet of humankind. He conveys with tremendous power the majesty and desolation of history, the vanity of pomp and pride, the transitoriness of fame. And he is the poet of contemporary society, keen to discern the false and the corrupt, courageous in denunciation yet with pity for the young and innocent… As a poet he mirrored brilliantly and without distortion an absorbingly interesting world" (Baugh, 1229).
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