A Note From the General Editors
Editorial Preface and Editorial Principles
Acknowledgments
Note on Illustrations
List of Figures
Chronological Table of Byron's Life and Publications
Abbreviations
Don Juan
Draft Preface
Dedication
Cantos I-II
Appendix Brougham Stanzas, note and note on Hazlitt
Cantos III-V
Preface to Cantos VI-VIII
Canto VI
Volume V
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Cantos VII-VIII
Cantos IX-XI
Cantos XII-XIV
Cantos XV-XVI
Canto XVII
Biography
Jane Stabler teaches at the School of English, University of St Andrews, Scotland. Her books include Byron, Poetics and History (CUP 2002), The Artistry of Exile: Romantic & Victorian Writers in Italy (OUP 2013), the Longman Byron Critical Reader and the Palgrave Byron Advances volume.
Gavin Hopps is Director of ITIA and Senior Lecturer in Literature and Theology at the University of St Andrews. His publications include The Extravagance of Music (with David Brown; 2018).
‘It is not every day that book-reviewing revives one’s hopes of life after death, but this edition of Byron’s masterpiece is a case in point. . . . [Jane Stabler’s achievement in the scholarly annotations] is prodigious in its own right. . . . Finally, for Byronists: the editors’ achievement here should encourage a scholar somewhere to write that genuinely literary-critical account of Byron’s masterpiece we lack. Cultural-materialist approaches can help us see what we are reading in Don Juan; only literary criticism can tell us why we should read it.’ - Richard Lansdown, The Wordsworth Circle, volume 56, number 3, summer 2025.
