The Dream (Lord Byron Poem)

The Dream is a poem written by Lord Byron in 1816. It was partially inspired by the view from the Misk Hills, close to Byron's ancestral home in Newstead, Nottinghamshire.

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Topics
  • Barony of Byron
  • The Byronic hero
  • Early life
  • Newstead Abbey
  • Timeline of Lord Byron
People
  • Allegra Byron
  • Anne Isabella Byron
  • John Byron
  • Lady Byron
  • Claire Clairmont
  • Contessa Guiccioli
  • Jane Harley
  • John Cam Hobhouse
  • Lady Caroline Lamb
  • Augusta Leigh
  • Medora Leigh
  • Ada Lovelace
  • Thomas Moore
  • John William Polidori
  • Mary Shelley
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Edward John Trelawny
Longer poetry
  • Hours of Idleness (1807)
  • English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809)
  • The Giaour (1813)
  • The Bride of Abydos (1813)
  • The Corsair (1814)
  • Lara, A Tale (1814)
  • Hebrew Melodies (1815)
  • The Siege of Corinth (1816)
  • Parisina (1816)
  • The Prisoner of Chillon (1816)
  • The Dream (1816)
  • Prometheus (1816)
  • Darkness (1816)
  • The Lament of Tasso (1817)
  • Beppo (1818)
  • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1818)
  • Don Juan (1819–1824; incomplete upon Byron's death in 1824)
  • Mazeppa (1819)
  • The Prophecy of Dante (1819)
  • The Vision of Judgment (1821)
  • The Age of Bronze (1823)
  • The Island (1823)
Plays
  • Manfred (1817)
  • Marino Faliero (1820)
  • Sardanapalus (1821)
  • The Two Foscari (1821)
  • Cain (1821)
  • Heaven and Earth (1821)
  • Werner (1822)
  • The Deformed Transformed (1822)
Shorter poetry
  • "The First Kiss of Love" (1806)
  • "Thoughts Suggested by a College Examination" (1806)
  • "To a Beautiful Quaker" (1807)
  • "The Cornelian" (1807)
  • "Lines Addressed to a Young Lady" (1807)
  • "Lachin y Garr" (1807)
  • "Epitaph to a Dog" (1808)
  • "Maid of Athens, ere we part" (1810)
  • "She Walks in Beauty" (1814)
  • "My Soul is Dark" (1815)
  • "The Destruction of Sennacherib" (1815)
  • "Fare Thee Well" (1816)
  • "When We Two Parted" (1817)
  • "Love's Last Adieu"
  • "So, we'll go no more a roving" (1830)
Prose
  • Fragment of a Novel (1819)

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