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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in The Byron Journal.daily12026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 37 (2009) through current issueLatest Articles: The Byron JournalTWOProject MUSE®The Byron Journal1757-02630301-7257Latest articles in The Byron Journal. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Essay Contributors
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985707
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Oliver Bradbury is an architectural historian; around the 2000s, he also developed an interest in Byronic biography, receiving funding from the Byron Society. His articles include 'Burgage Manor, Nottinghamshire' (Country Life, 28 November 2002), an essay for The Newstead Byron Society Review (January 2001), and the first detailed account of Byron's friend Alexander Scott's life (The Byron Journal, 2001, 2002), the postscript to which in this issue is his first Byronic article in twenty-four years. As an architectural historian, Bradbury's principal publication is Sir John Soane's Influence on Architecture from 1791 – A Continuing Legacy (Ashgate, 2015); in 2025, he worked on a Conservation Management Plan for the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/421/image/coversmallEssay Contributors2026-03-21text/htmlen-USEssay Contributors2026-03-212026TWOProject MUSE®51232026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-03-21Editorial
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985708
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The second issue of the Journal's fifty-third year presents four original essays by eminent Romanticists and independent scholars from the US, Poland, and the UK, ranging from philosophical and political Byronic resonances to literary collaborations and acquaintances. The fifth article presents an exciting new discovery of a fragment in Byron's hand found in material held at Leeds Libraries.First, James Chandler's essay invites us to contemplate and reassess the complex evolution of Platonic resonances across Byron's oeuvre from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage to Don Juan, via Shelley's 'Julian and Maddalo'. Greg Kucich then takes us on a journey through The Liberal's collaborative dynamics, exploring the socio-cultural
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/421/image/coversmallEditorial2026-03-21text/htmlen-USEditorial2026-03-212026TWOProject MUSE®36712026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-03-21'Confounded fantasies': Byron and Romantic Platonism
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985709
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Perhaps the most obvious starting point for thinking about Byron's relation to Plato and Platonism comes with that pivotal moment in the first canto of Don Juan when, after a Platonic squeeze, young Juan finds himself having sex with a married woman. The squeeze is Platonic in the specific sense that it is informed by an erotic mystification, a fantasy that Byron plays out for us in the mind of Donna Julia:
And then there are things such as love divine,
  Bright and immaculate, unmix'd and pure,
Such as the angels think so very fine,
  And matrons, who would be no less secure,
Platonic, perfect, 'just such love as mine':
  Thus Julia said – and thought so, to be sure.
(DJ, I, 79)1
The implications of this
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/421/image/coversmall'Confounded fantasies': Byron and Romantic Platonism2026-03-21text/htmlen-US'Confounded fantasies': Byron and Romantic Platonism2026-03-212026TWOProject MUSE®651642026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-03-21Byron, Hunt, and the 'Mediterranean Miscellaneousness' of The Liberal
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985710
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The volatile Byron–Hunt relationship in the production, or 'misproduction', of The Liberal has preoccupied many critics of both writers from the moment of its emergence on the public scene to the present day. Enemies of what Thomas Moore apprehended would be an 'unworthy alliance' of Byron and Hunt to invent The Liberal at Pisa loudly surfaced even before its first issue appeared in October 1822.1 Earlier that year, John Watkins, Byron's first biographer, anticipated and condemned the 'immorality and profaneness' that he expected to flow from the 'academy of blasphemy' formed in Pisa to corrupt English society through the unholy pages of The Liberal.2 Such tirades increased exponentially with its first issue. So
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/421/image/coversmallByron, Hunt, and the 'Mediterranean Miscellaneousness' of The Liberal2026-03-21text/htmlen-USByron, Hunt, and the 'Mediterranean Miscellaneousness' of The Liberal2026-03-212026TWOProject MUSE®1286892026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-03-21Publishing Byron in Communist Poland: Juliusz Żuławski's Editions of Byron's Works
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985711
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In 1974, on the sesquicentenary of Byron's death, Juliusz Żuławski published an essay on Byron's influence on Polish literature in The Byron Journal.1 Over fifty years later, it is appropriate to examine Żuławski's role in shaping the Polish reception of Byron in the second half of the twentieth century. As editor of Byron's poetry, author of Byron's biography, and translator, he worked on Byron for over thirty years. In the years 1953–61 he published four volumes of Byron's selected writings (Z pism Byrona), and his biography of Byron, Byron nieupozowany [Byron, unposed], went through three editions (1964, 1966, 1979). His 1986 edition of Byron's selected works (Wybór dzieł) remains the standard edition of Byron
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/421/image/coversmallPublishing Byron in Communist Poland: Juliusz Żuławski's Editions of Byron's Works2026-03-21text/htmlen-USPublishing Byron in Communist Poland: Juliusz Żuławski's Editions of Byron's Works2026-03-212026TWOProject MUSE®678492026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-03-21Whatever Happened to Byron's Friend Alexander Scott?
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985712
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The coast around Oštra is barren and nothing but jagged rock, and so it continues, but the sea, being somewhat deeper between the cliffs, has created the lovely 'Dubno' bay. Some fishermen's cottages have been built along the seashore, and above them dense groves of olive and cypress have sprung up amongst the rocks and in the fissures in the limestone. It is here that the country house of the Englishman [sic] Scott has shyly hidden itself. In the days when he bought the land, this was just bare rocky karst but, working tirelessly, he transformed it into a domain for which any man would give up his urban life and settle down to rest. He had the naked rock broken and put to use in creating dry-stone terraces, filled
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/421/image/coversmallWhatever Happened to Byron's Friend Alexander Scott?2026-03-21text/htmlen-USWhatever Happened to Byron's Friend Alexander Scott?2026-03-212026TWOProject MUSE®540032026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-03-21From Augusta Leigh's Ransacked Papers to Anna Leighton's Autograph Book: The Finding of an Unrecorded Draft Fragment of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985713
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An autograph album held in the special collections of Leeds Public Libraries contains a holograph draft of what would become stanza 88 of Canto II in the seventh edition of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage I and II (1814).1 It includes textual variants that have not been recorded elsewhere. By comparison, the seventh printed edition of Childe Harold I and II presents the stanza as we have come to know it:
  Where'er we tread 'tis haunted, holy ground,
  No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould!
  But one vast realm of wonder spreads around,
  And all the Muse's tales seem truly told,
  Till the sense aches with gazing to behold
  The scenes our earliest dreams have dwelt upon:
  Each hill and dale, each deepening glen
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/421/image/coversmallFrom Augusta Leigh's Ransacked Papers to Anna Leighton's Autograph Book: The Finding of an Unrecorded Draft Fragment of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage2026-03-21text/htmlen-USFrom Augusta Leigh's Ransacked Papers to Anna Leighton's Autograph Book: The Finding of an Unrecorded Draft Fragment of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage2026-03-212026TWOProject MUSE®142722026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-03-21Rescuing the Byron Memorial Statue: An Update
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985714
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When I wrote a short article for the Byron Journal (51.2, 2023) as an appeal to raise funds to achieve our objective of moving and conserving the Byron Statue, I expressed confidence that the money would be raised. Whether that confidence was justified, I did on occasion have cause to wonder. However, thanks in large part to the National Heritage Lottery Fund providing a grant of £230,000, sufficient funds have been raised and we are now close to being able to start work.The Lottery grant was by far the largest contribution to our funding but it is very unlikely that the lottery would have stepped in were it not for the many generous individual donations as well as the funds already committed by a number of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/421/image/coversmallRescuing the Byron Memorial Statue: An Update2026-03-21text/htmlen-USRescuing the Byron Memorial Statue: An Update2026-03-212026TWOProject MUSE®40402026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-03-21A Royal Visit to Ravenna
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985715
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Her Majesty Queen Camilla and the President of the Ravenna Bank Foundation, Prof. Mirella Falconi Mazzotti. Photo by Giampiero Corelli, courtesy of the Byron Museum, Ravenna.On 10 April 2025, only a few months after its inauguration, Ravenna's Byron Museum at Palazzo Guiccioli welcomed a special guest: Her Majesty Queen Camilla. The visit was part of the Italian tour undertaken by King Charles III and the Queen, coinciding with their twentieth wedding anniversary, during which they visited both Rome and Ravenna.On 10 April, at approximately 1:15 p.m., the Queen arrived at the main entrance of Palazzo Guiccioli on Via Cavour (known as Via di Porta Adriana in Byron's time). After a brief stop and a restorative cup of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/421/image/coversmallA Royal Visit to Ravenna2026-03-21text/htmlen-USA Royal Visit to Ravenna2026-03-212026TWOProject MUSE®76392026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-03-21'Aftermaths and Afterlives: Byron in 2025 and Beyond' Newstead Abbey Byron Conference 25–26 April 2025
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985716
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Despite the fact that, in contrast to the bicentennial commemorations of 2024, 2025 was seemingly nothing special, the same cannot be said of the 2025 Newstead Abbey conference. This year's conference again attracted a good number of enthusiastic delegates from Europe and America, proving that interest in Byron lives on, even 201 years since his death: the pull of Byron is still as strong as ever, even post-bicentenary.After a brief welcome from Emily Paterson-Morgan (Byron Society) and a tasty buffet lunch, the first session, chaired by Marc Gotthardt (Cambridge), got the proceedings proper underway. The spotlight first fell on Byron's continuing transformation and began with Siôn-Iestyn Pope (UHI). In her paper
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/421/image/coversmall'Aftermaths and Afterlives: Byron in 2025 and Beyond' Newstead Abbey Byron Conference 25–26 April 20252026-03-21text/htmlen-US'Aftermaths and Afterlives: Byron in 2025 and Beyond' Newstead Abbey Byron Conference 25–26 April 20252026-03-212026TWOProject MUSE®146592026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-03-21'Byron and the Mediterranean "Cult of the South"' University of Notre Dame, Rome 20–22 June 2024
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985717
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'Oh Rome! my country! city of the soul!' This line from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (iv, 78) adorns the plinth of the Byron statue in the Villa Borghese, a monument to his lasting fascination with the eternal city. While Byron spent relatively little time in Rome itself, Italy not only became a home to the exiled poet, its fragmented political landscape also crystallised his liberal vision for the Mediterranean nations. Many younger Romantics championed this cause, but two hundred years after Byron died in Missolonghi, Greece, in pursuing this vision, a two-day symposium foregrounded Byron's central role in the phenomenon that was the 'Cult of the South'. The symposium, co-hosted by Gregory Kucich (Notre Dame, on
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/421/image/coversmall'Byron and the Mediterranean "Cult of the South"' University of Notre Dame, Rome 20–22 June 20242026-03-21text/htmlen-US'Byron and the Mediterranean "Cult of the South"' University of Notre Dame, Rome 20–22 June 20242026-03-212026TWOProject MUSE®219862026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-03-21'The Years That Followed: The Afterlives of Lord Byron' 49th International Byron Conference University of Pisa 30 June–5 July 2025
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985718
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In late June, an international group of Byronists gathered in Italy for the University of Pisa's 'The Years that Followed: The Afterlives of Lord Byron' conference. Following the bicentenary celebrations of last year, this conference centred on Byron's enduring posthumous legacy, resulting in many fascinating papers from around the globe. The conference featured many additional cultural events that complemented the academic pursuits such as excursions to Bagni di Lucca, Lerici and San Terenzo, a boat tour on the Arno River, poetry readings, musical performances and an exhibition, 'The Charm of Books: Byron in the Tower of Ugolino' which displayed rare editions of Byron's work and a letter from the poet to Mary
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/421/image/coversmall'The Years That Followed: The Afterlives of Lord Byron' 49th International Byron Conference University of Pisa 30 June–5 July 20252026-03-21text/htmlen-US'The Years That Followed: The Afterlives of Lord Byron' 49th International Byron Conference University of Pisa 30 June–5 July 20252026-03-212026TWOProject MUSE®216442026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-03-21The International Byron Societies 2025
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985719
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2025 was a fantastic year for the Society, albeit slightly calmer than the bicentenary the year before! Perhaps the most exciting aspect for us was to successfully complete our fund-raising mission for the statue of Lord Byron languishing on a rubbish-strewn roundabout in the middle of London. We are now working on finalising the renovation and relocation logistics and hope to have the state safely installed in its new home in due course. (Watch out for news and a celebration in 2026!)In addition, the Society has continued to go from strength to strength, with a wide range of monthly events covering every aspect of Byron's life and works. We have remained committed to a hybrid approach, alternating between online
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/421/image/coversmallThe International Byron Societies 20252026-03-21text/htmlen-USThe International Byron Societies 20252026-03-212026TWOProject MUSE®286932026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-03-21Letter to the Editor
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985720
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Dear Editor,On Wednesday 5 November, Rosemary Shatliff and I went to Kirkby Woodhouse School to be met by Mrs Lisa Clay (English Lead) who had once more organised the annual Poetry and Art Competition. As a break from tradition, this year the competitions were based on Mary Chaworth (Byron's first real attachment). Mary's early years were spent at Annesley Hall and after her marriage to Jack Musters at Colwich Hall. The picture below shows the three young girls who won the Art competition this year, and two of the three boys who won the Poetry competition.My sincere thanks once again to both Rosemary and Lisa for their continued support and enthusiasm in keeping the Byron story very much alive.It is twenty-two
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/421/image/coversmallLetter to the Editor2026-03-21text/htmlen-USLetter to the Editor2026-03-212026TWOProject MUSE®63272026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-03-21The International Byron Societies Officers and Addresses
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985721
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For full details of the International Association of Byron Societies, please see our website www.internationalassociationofbyronsocieties.org.The Officers for 2025–26 are as follows:Joint Presidents: Madeleine Callaghan (UK); Peter Francev (USA); Maria Schoina (Greece)Treasurer: Emily Paterson-Morgan (UK)Communications Officer: Kaila Rose (USA)Advisory Board: Andrew Stauffer, Chair (USA); Bernard Beatty (UK); Shobhana Bhattacharji (India); Olivier Feignier (France); Rodanthi-Rosa Florou (Greece); Jonathan Gross (USA); Mirka Horová (Czech Republic); Piya Pal Lapinski (USA); Naji Oueijan (Lebanon); Alan Rawes (UK)Corresponding Member:Dr Afrim KaragjoziPre DuresitP.11 Sh-6. Apt. 45TiranaCorresponding Member:Mr Isolda
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/421/image/coversmallThe International Byron Societies Officers and Addresses2026-03-21text/htmlen-USThe International Byron Societies Officers and Addresses2026-03-212026TWOProject MUSE®158142026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-03-21Index to Volume 53
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985722
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/421/image/coversmallIndex to Volume 532026-03-21text/htmlen-USIndex to Volume 532026-03-212026TWOProject MUSE®55932026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-03-21