Learning Corp. of America released a video in 1971 titled Romanticism: The Revolt of Spirit. This video is part of their “Shaping of the Western World” series and explores the extensive influence of romanticism in music, art, and literature.

A 1949 feature film titled The Bad Lord Byron delves into the poet’s life through a mock trial. It was released on videocassette in 1994 by Hollywood Select Video, featuring Dennis Price, Mai Zitterling, and Wilfred Hyde-White.

The documentary Byron: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know is based on the poet’s letters to his publisher. It was made available on videocassette in 1993 by Films for the Humanities and Sciences.

Monterrey Home Video’s 1993 release, The Glorious Romantics: A Poetic Return to the Regency, features actors portraying Byron, Keats, Shelley, and others. This video is part of the Public Broadcasting System’s “Anyone for Tennyson?” series.

“She Walks in Beauty” is featured among other love poems on a compact disc from Naxos Audiobooks, titled A Lover’s Gift from Him to Her, which was released in 1999.

HarperCollins Audio Books released an unabridged collection of Lord Byron’s Poetry on audiocassette in 1999, narrated by Linus Roache.

Frederick Davidson narrates Byron’s poetry on Lord Byron: Selected Poems, a two-cassette set released by Blackstone Audio Books in 1992.

“She Walks in Beauty” is also included among the love poems on the Capitol Records compact disc Beauty and the Beast: Of Love and Hope, inspired by the television show of the same name, which was released in 1989.

Dove Audio’s 1997 cassette, The Poetry of the Romantics, features several renowned actors reading works by Keats, Byron, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Blake.

Sources

Arnold, Matthew, Preface to Poetry of Byron, Macmillan, 1881, later reprinted as “Byron,” in Essays in Criticism, Dutton, 1964, pp. 312–30.

Ashton, Thomas L., Byron’s “Hebrew Melodies”, University of Texas Press, 1972, p. 21.

Auden, W. H., “Don Juan,” in The Dyer & Other Essays, Random House, 1962, pp. 386–406.

Dick, William A., Byron and His Poetry, Haskell House Publishers, 1977, p. 81.

Frye, Northrop, “George Gordon, Lord Byron,” in Major British Writers, Vol. II, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959, pp. 152–53.

Jump, John D., Byron, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972.

Mankiewicz, Herman J., and Orson Welles, The Shooting Script: Citizen Kane, in The Citizen Kane Book, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1971, pp. 153–55.

Marchand, Leslie A., Byron: A Portrait, Alfred A. Knopf, 1970.

Martin, L. C., in Byron’s Lyrics, University of Nottingham, 1948, p. 25.

Read, Herbert, Byron, The British Council, 1951, p. 24.

Review of “Hebrew Melodies,” in Augustan Review, Volume 1, July, 1815, reprinted in The Romantics Reviewed, Contemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers: Byron and Regency Society Poets, edited by Donald H. Reiman, Garland Publishing, 1972, pp. 57–60.

Shilstone, Frederick W., Byron and the Myth of Tradition, University of Nebraska Press, 1988.

West, Paul, Byron and the Spoiler’s Art, Lumen Books, 1992, p. 23.

Further Reading

Bernbaum, Ernest, Guide through the Romantic Movement, The Ronald Press Co., 1949. Bernbaum’s work includes many lesser-known figures from the Romantic era, providing readers with a broader understanding of the period than standard synopses typically offer.

Bostetter, Edward E., The Romantic Ventriloquists: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Byron, University of Washington Press, 1963. Though the tone is somewhat dry, Bostetter successfully captures essential details of Byron’s life.

Christensen, Jerome, Lord Byron’s Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Christensen examines the poet’s career through the lens of modern marketing theory.

Levine, Alice, “Byron and the Romantic Composer,” in Lord Byron and His Contemporaries, edited by Charles E. Robinson, University of Delaware Press, 1982, pp. 178–203. Given that this poem was initially published with others intended for musical adaptation, Levine’s thorough exploration of musical inspirations and derivations is highly pertinent.

Rutherford, Andrew, Byron: A Critical Study, Stanford University Press, 1961. Rutherford studies Byron’s life and works as a cohesive career, dividing it at the year 1817. This intricate analysis may provide more background than some readers of this poem might require.

Wain, John, “The Search for Identity,” in Byron, edited by Paul West, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963, pp. 157–70. Wain delves into the poet’s persona and the underlying psychology behind his most renowned works.