Flamboyant, brilliant, daring in his life and poetry, relishing humour and irony, Byron became the quintessential European Romantic in an age of revolutions. This edition contains the complete texts of many longer works not readily available in their entirety, including Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, all but one of the Eastern tales, and the historical drama Sardanapalus, now regarded as a key text in the modern re-evaluation of Romanticism. The editors provide full notes, bibliography, a biographical sketch and detailed chronology of Byrons life and work.