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Hours of Idleness

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Hours of Idleness

by George Gordon, Lord Byron

English· 02:56:10· 41 chapters
Hours of Idleness was Byron's first book of poems published when he was only 19. In it he experiments with various poetic styles and provides translations of, and poems written in imitation of, earlier mainly classical poets.



The book received strong criticism on publication to which Byron responded with his poem English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.



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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Preface

    03:30
  2. Chapter 2

    POEMS: On leaving Newstead Abbey

    03:15
  3. Chapter 3

    On a distant view of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill

    03:00
  4. Chapter 4

    Epitaph on a Friend

    01:58
  5. Chapter 5

    A Fragment

    00:58
  6. Chapter 6

    The Tear

    04:58
  7. Chapter 7

    An occasional Prologue

    03:01
  8. Chapter 8

    On the Death of Mr. Fox

    03:14
  9. Chapter 9

    Stanzas to a Lady, with the Poems of Camoens

    01:10
  10. Chapter 10

    The first Kiss of Love

    02:10
  11. Chapter 11

    To M------

    01:32
  12. Chapter 12

    To Woman

    01:16
  13. Chapter 13

    To M. S. G.

    01:16
  14. Chapter 14

    To a beautiful Quaker

    03:36
  15. Chapter 15

    To --------

    03:00
  16. Chapter 16

    To Mary, on receiving her Picture

    02:06
  17. Chapter 17

    Love's last Adieu

    03:35
  18. Chapter 18

    Damaetas

    01:15
  19. Chapter 19

    To Marion

    03:10
  20. Chapter 20

    Oscar of Alva

    15:11
  21. Chapter 21

    TRANSLATIONS and IMITATIONS: Adrian's Address to his Soul, when dying

    00:46
  22. Chapter 22

    Translation

    00:31
  23. Chapter 23

    Translation from Catullus

    01:43
  24. Chapter 24

    Translation from the Epitaph of Virgil and Tibullus

    00:34
  25. Chapter 25

    Translation from Catullus

    01:47
  26. Chapter 26

    Imitated from Catullus

    00:57
  27. Chapter 27

    Translation from Anacreon. To his Lyre

    01:19
  28. Chapter 28

    Translation from Anacreon. Ode 3

    02:57
  29. Chapter 29

    Fragments of School Exercises

    01:13
  30. Chapter 30

    Episode of Nisus and Euryalus

    19:35
  31. Chapter 31

    Translation from the Medea of Euripides

    03:40
  32. Chapter 32

    FUGITIVE PIECES: Thoughts suggested by a College Examination

    04:30
  33. Chapter 33

    Answer to some elegant Verses, sent by a Friend to the Author

    03:31
  34. Chapter 34

    Grant, a Medley

    06:03
  35. Chapter 35

    Lachin Y. Gair

    03:15
  36. Chapter 36

    To Romance

    04:19
  37. Chapter 37

    Elegy on Newstead Abbey

    11:40
  38. Chapter 38

    Childish Recollections

    24:06
  39. Chapter 39

    The Death of Calmar and Orla

    12:58
  40. Chapter 40

    To E. N. L. Esq.

    04:30
  41. Chapter 41

    To --------

    03:05