Roderick Beaton is Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, and Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, at King’s College London. Christine Kenyon Jones is a Research Fellow in the Department of English at King’s College London.

• Peter Cochran: an appreciation, Kenyon Jones / Introduction, Beaton and Kenyon Jones / Part I Politics of Writing and Reading: Byron criticism in the age of Margaret Thatcher and Michael Foot, Gross / Byron’s lyrics and the politics of publication, Stauffer / Byron’s manipulation of authors and addressees in his comical political poems, Modrzewska / Byron and the politics of writing women, Camilleri / She walks in beauty like the night in which all cows are black: Byron’s nonhuman, Morton / Byron, Orwell, politics and the English language, Graham /Part II Politics in the poetry: The politics and poetry of Byron’s Romantic Hellenism: fragmentation as a discursive strategy in The Giaour, Procházka / Poetry, politics and prophecy: The Age of Bronze, The Vision of Judgement and The Prophecy of Dante, Beatty / Byron the Cynic, Havard / Systems and their boundaries: Byron’s poetry and politics in Italy, Böhm / The politics of Don Juan, Cochran / ‘A wilderness of the most rare conceits’: imagining politics in the English cantos of Don Juan, O’Neill / Byron and the politics of heroic transformation, Horová / Part III ‘When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home…’: ‘I am not made for what you call a politician’: Byron’s silent parliamentary experiences, Kenyon Jones / Byron and the ‘Spanish Patriots’: the poetry and politics of the Peninsular War (1808-1814), Coletes-Blanco / History, prophecy, revolution: Italian politics in Byron and Foscolo, Mucignat / From Risorgimento to Fascism: the politics of Parisina, Pal-Lapinski / Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, British travellers to Greece and the ‘idea of Europe’, Grammatikos / The politics of altruism, Minta / Byron and Greece: lessons in ‘political economy’, Beaton / Afterword, Hamilton.

Roderick Beaton is Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, and Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, at King’s College London. Christine Kenyon Jones is a Research Fellow in the Department of English at King’s College London.

• Peter Cochran: an appreciation, Kenyon Jones / Introduction, Beaton and Kenyon Jones / Part I Politics of Writing and Reading: Byron criticism in the age of Margaret Thatcher and Michael Foot, Gross / Byron’s lyrics and the politics of publication, Stauffer / Byron’s manipulation of authors and addressees in his comical political poems, Modrzewska / Byron and the politics of writing women, Camilleri / She walks in beauty like the night in which all cows are black: Byron’s nonhuman, Morton / Byron, Orwell, politics and the English language, Graham /Part II Politics in the poetry: The politics and poetry of Byron’s Romantic Hellenism: fragmentation as a discursive strategy in The Giaour, Procházka / Poetry, politics and prophecy: The Age of Bronze, The Vision of Judgement and The Prophecy of Dante, Beatty / Byron the Cynic, Havard / Systems and their boundaries: Byron’s poetry and politics in Italy, Böhm / The politics of Don Juan, Cochran / ‘A wilderness of the most rare conceits’: imagining politics in the English cantos of Don Juan, O’Neill / Byron and the politics of heroic transformation, Horová / Part III ‘When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home…’: ‘I am not made for what you call a politician’: Byron’s silent parliamentary experiences, Kenyon Jones / Byron and the ‘Spanish Patriots’: the poetry and politics of the Peninsular War (1808-1814), Coletes-Blanco / History, prophecy, revolution: Italian politics in Byron and Foscolo, Mucignat / From Risorgimento to Fascism: the politics of Parisina, Pal-Lapinski / Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, British travellers to Greece and the ‘idea of Europe’, Grammatikos / The politics of altruism, Minta / Byron and Greece: lessons in ‘political economy’, Beaton / Afterword, Hamilton.

Roderick Beaton is Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, and Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, at King’s College London. Christine Kenyon Jones is a Research Fellow in the Department of English at King’s College London.

• Peter Cochran: an appreciation, Kenyon Jones / Introduction, Beaton and Kenyon Jones / Part I Politics of Writing and Reading: Byron criticism in the age of Margaret Thatcher and Michael Foot, Gross / Byron’s lyrics and the politics of publication, Stauffer / Byron’s manipulation of authors and addressees in his comical political poems, Modrzewska / Byron and the politics of writing women, Camilleri / She walks in beauty like the night in which all cows are black: Byron’s nonhuman, Morton / Byron, Orwell, politics and the English language, Graham /Part II Politics in the poetry: The politics and poetry of Byron’s Romantic Hellenism: fragmentation as a discursive strategy in The Giaour, Procházka / Poetry, politics and prophecy: The Age of Bronze, The Vision of Judgement and The Prophecy of Dante, Beatty / Byron the Cynic, Havard / Systems and their boundaries: Byron’s poetry and politics in Italy, Böhm / The politics of Don Juan, Cochran / ‘A wilderness of the most rare conceits’: imagining politics in the English cantos of Don Juan, O’Neill / Byron and the politics of heroic transformation, Horová / Part III ‘When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home…’: ‘I am not made for what you call a politician’: Byron’s silent parliamentary experiences, Kenyon Jones / Byron and the ‘Spanish Patriots’: the poetry and politics of the Peninsular War (1808-1814), Coletes-Blanco / History, prophecy, revolution: Italian politics in Byron and Foscolo, Mucignat / From Risorgimento to Fascism: the politics of Parisina, Pal-Lapinski / Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, British travellers to Greece and the ‘idea of Europe’, Grammatikos / The politics of altruism, Minta / Byron and Greece: lessons in ‘political economy’, Beaton / Afterword, Hamilton.