"Criticism" is chronologically keyed to Byron's poetry and reprints both classic and recent examinations of Byron's writing and life, including assessments by Anne Barton, Donald H. Reiman, Jane Stabler, Jerome J. McGann, Susan J. Wolfson, and James Chandler. A Biographical Register, Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and Index of Poem Titles and First Lines are also included. This careful and textually-conservative edition will serve as an excellent introductory volume to Byron for students. . . . Alice Levine is to be congratulated on bringing the Norton Byron into the twenty-first century with a resounding bang.-- "Byron Journal" Alice Levine is Professor of English at Hofstra University. She is co-editor with Jerome J. McGann of Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: A Facsimile of Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library . Poems in the Autograph of Lord Byron Once in the Possession of Countess Guiccioli: Volume I, Poems, 1807-1818 ; Volume II, Don Juan, Cantos I-V ; Volume III, Poems, 1819-1822 ; Volume IV, Miscellaneous Poems , and coeditor with Robert N. Keane of Rereading Byron: Essays Selected From Hofstra University's Byron Bicentennial Conference. She has also published several essays about Byron, including studies focusing on Byron and music.