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    Edleston: Lord Byron's Boy Poems
    Edleston: Lord Byron's Boy Poems
    Edleston: Lord Byron's Boy Poems
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    Edleston: Lord Byron's Boy Poems

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    A collection of romantic poems Byron wrote for John Edleston, Lord Clare, Earl Delawarr, Lucas Chalandrutsanos, and other boys. The collection spans Byron's life. Some poems for Edleston, Clare, and Delawarr were among the earliest verse he wrote; the poems to Chalandrutsanos were his very last. Selected and introduced by Keith Hale.

    .......... Watersgreen House is an independent international book publisher with editorial staff in the UK and USA. One of our aims at Watersgreen House is to showcase same-sex affection in works by important gay and bisexual authors in ways which were not possible at the time the books were originally published. We also publish nonfiction, including textbooks, as well as contemporary fiction that is literary, unusual, and provocative. watersgreen.wix.com/watersgreenhouse

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWatersgreen House
    Release dateJun 22, 2013
    ISBN9781301348268
    Edleston: Lord Byron's Boy Poems
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    Keith Hale

    Keith Hale grew up in central Arkansas and Waco, Texas. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Following a five-year career as a journalist in Austin, Amsterdam, and Little Rock, Hale earned a Ph.D. in literature from Purdue and took a position teaching British and Philippine literature at the University of Guam. Hale writes both fiction and scholarly works including his groundbreaking novel Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada (Cody), first published in the Netherlands, and Friends and Apostles, his edition of Rupert Brooke's letters published by Yale University Press, London.

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      Edleston - Keith Hale

      Edleston

      Lord Byron’s Boy Poems

      By Lord Byron

      Edited and with an Introduction

      By Keith Hale

      © 2021 by Keith Hale

      Watersgreen House

      All rights reserved.

      BISAC: Biography & Autobiography / LGBT

      BISAC: Poetry / LGBT

      Cover photo © Olga Kvach, Melitopol, Ukraine.

      Licensed in Bucharest.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without prior written permission of both the copyright holder and the publisher. The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book via the Internet or any other means without permission is punishable by law.

      Watersgreen House, Publishers.

      Typeset in Sylfaen and Georgia.

      International copyright secured.

      Contents

      5 Introduction by Keith Hale

      Poems:

      25 To E—

      26 To D—

      27 Epitaph on a Beloved Friend

      29 Harrow, 1803

      31 On a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill, 1806

      34 Imitated from Catullus

      35 The Cornelian

      37 Hours of Idleness

      40 To the Earl of Clair

      46 Lines Written Beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow

      48 L’Amitie, est l’amour sans ailes

      53 Pignus Amoris

      55 Stanzas to Jessy

      57 The Adieu

      63 Egotism

      67 Farewell to the Muse

      70 On Revisiting Harrow

      71 There Was a Time, I Need Not Name

      73 Remind Me Not, Remind Me Not

      75 To a Youthful Friend

      80 Childish Recollections

      96 I Would I Were a Careless Child

      99 From Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto II

      100 To Thyrza

      103 Away, Away, Ye Notes of Woe!

      105 One Struggle More, and I am Free

      108 And Thou Art Dead, as Young and Fair

      112 If Something in the Haunts of Men

      114 On a Cornelian Heart which was Broken

      115 The Chain I Gave

      117 Line Written on a Blank Leaf of The Pleasures of Memory

      118 On the Quotation, And my true faith can alter never, though thou art gone perhaps for ever.

      120 Remember Him, Whom Passion’s Power

      123 Oh! Snatched Away in Beauty’s Bloom

      124 When We Two Parted

      126 Love and Death

      128 Last Words on Greece

      129 On This Day I Complete My 36th Year

      132 Works Cited

      Lord Byron

      (1788-1824)

      Byron's bisexuality had an influence on virtually everything he wrote. The alienation from English society produced by his feelings for fellow males might even account for the development of the Byronic hero. When, for example, in Manfred, Byron asks for forgetfulness Of that which is within me (1.137), one suspects that what he would most like to forget is his love for boys--something he would never achieve.

      Louis Crompton points out the unprecedented number of executions of homosexuals in England in the statistical reports of [Byron's] day (1) and asks the question: Does Byron's bisexuality explain the psychology of the so-called Byronic hero? When we consider the extreme animus felt toward homosexuals in Byron's England, with its hangings, pilloryings, ostracism, and exiles, this is a tempting theory (8).

      Byron's early poems show he loved his school friends at Harrow dearly. Witness his descriptions of friends in such poems as To a Youthful Friend, Epitaph on a Friend, Childish Recollections, and Stanzas to Jessy. Indeed, To a Youthful Friend contains the almost prophetic lines:

      And when we bid adieu to youth,

      Slaves to the specious world's control,

      We sigh a long farewell to truth;

      That world corrupts the noblest soul.

      Having made his friendships a cult, Byron was ill-prepared to face the years of separation from them that inevitably came after leaving Cambridge. It is no wonder he was early jaded and forlorn.

      Although Byron's friendships were a favorite subject for his early poems, because of the hostility towards same-sex affairs in England, he felt the need for discretion and therefore rarely mentioned the name of the friend in his poems unless the poem was an innocuous tribute. His romantic school friend Lord Clare, for instance, became Lycus in Childhood Reflections. In Detached Thoughts, Byron wrote, My School friendships were with me passions (for I was always violent) . . . that with Lord Clare began one of the earliest and lasted longest . . . I never hear the word Clare without a beating of the heart--even now(Byron's Letters and Journals [hereafter cited BLJ] 9.44). A few pages later, Byron mentions having recently met Clare on the road between Imola and Bologna: It was a new and inexplicable feeling like rising from the grave to me. -- Clare too was much agitated -- more--in appearance -- than even myself--for I could feel his heart beat to the fingers' ends-- unless indeed -- it was the pulse of my own which made me think so(9.49).

      Another friend, George, Earl Delawarr, was called Euryalus (i.e., one of the pair of lovers from Virgil's The Aeneid) in Childish Recollections (Byron also published a paraphrase of the Euryalus and Nisus story in Hours of Idleness, but he seems to have written that for his friend John Edleston, not Delawarr). Of Delawarr, Byron wrote: That name is yet embalm'd, within my heart; / Yet, at the mention, does my heart rebound, / And palpitate, responsive to the sound. However, following a quarrel

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