Hours of Idleness

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jun 1, 2023

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Authors: George Gordon, Lord Byron In Year : 1807

Book Language: English

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Preface
POEMS: On leaving Newstead Abbey
On a distant view of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill
Epitaph on a Friend
A Fragment
The Tear
An occasional Prologue
On the Death of Mr. Fox
Stanzas to a Lady, with the Poems of Camoens
The first Kiss of Love
To M------
To Woman
To M. S. G.
To a beautiful Quaker
To --------
To Mary, on receiving her Picture
Love's last Adieu
Damaetas
To Marion
Oscar of Alva
TRANSLATIONS and IMITATIONS: Adrian's Address to his Soul, when dying
Translation
Translation from Catullus
Translation from the Epitaph of Virgil and Tibullus
Translation from Catullus
Imitated from Catullus
Translation from Anacreon. To his Lyre
Translation from Anacreon. Ode 3
Fragments of School Exercises
Episode of Nisus and Euryalus
Translation from the Medea of Euripides
FUGITIVE PIECES: Thoughts suggested by a College Examination
Answer to some elegant Verses, sent by a Friend to the Author
Grant, a Medley
Lachin Y. Gair
To Romance
Elegy on Newstead Abbey
Childish Recollections
The Death of Calmar and Orla
To E. N. L. Esq.
To --------

Hours of Idleness was Byron's first book of poems published when he was only 19. In it he experiments with various poetic styles and provides translations of, and poems written in imitation of, earlier mainly classical poets.

The book received strong criticism on publication to which Byron responded with his poem English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.

(Summary by Alan Mapstone)