This is the first biography of Byron to focus on the poet as a professional writer and the circumstances of literary production of his major poems. It shows how Byron interacted and collaborated with other writers; how he tailored his writing to different circles of readers when experimenting with genre, style, and serial publication; how he negotiated with his publishers in establishing the bounds of his challenge to political, sexual and religious conventions. His aristocratic status enabled him to combine the face-saving appearance of insouciant dilettantism with an actual writing practice as dedicatedly professional in many ways as that of novelists like Scott or Dickens.

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CAROLINE FRANKLIN is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Swansea. She is author of Byron's Heroines (1992), and editor of The Romantics: Women Poets, 1770-1830, 12 Vols. (1996) and The Wellesley Series: British Romantic Poets, 6 Vols. (1998).

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Preface and Suggestions for Further Reading Chronology Prelude: Byron's Gothic Inheritance The Noble Poet and 'the Trade': Juvenilia and Juvenalia The Traveller from the East Meets the 'Emperor of the West': Byron and Murray The Acting Tragedy and the Tragedy of Acting: Byron, Drury Lane Theatre and Romantic Drama From Pilgrim to Patriot: Byron as Poet of Exile The Bookseller to the Admiralty and the Board of Longitude Beset by Pirates: Byron, Don Juan and the Freedom of the Press The Eagle, the Wren and the Snake: Byron and The Liberal Postscript Index