Selections from Byron - Samuel Marion Tucker

Printed as part of Ginn & Company’s series of Standard English Classics, this compilation of the poetry of George Gordon, Lord Byron contains both poems in full and excerpts of Byron’s longer poetical works.  As taken from the introduction: “The primary purpose of this book is to give the young reader some insight into Byron’s genius by presenting for study and for reading those of his poems which should make the most immediate appear. For such a purpose much of Byron’s poetry is admirably fitted, since, as a whole, it is not abstruse in its subject matter, is lucid it its expression, and, above all, is spirited and energetic.”    The text has been compiled and edited by Samuel Marion Tucker, Professor of English at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. His footnotes and informational interjections are helpful in providing historical context as well as clarification about Byron’s many allusions. He strikes a tone that is friendly, helpful, and bit eager without being overbearing o