Fugitive Pieces

2017

This was Byron’s first poetic collection, published in 1806 when he was 18 years old. Some of the poems date from when he was 14 years old. Loves, friends, always with the view on his first love Mary Anne Chaworth. However, it was promptly recalled and burned on the advice of his friend, the Reverend Thomas Becher, on account of its more amorous verses, particularly the poem “To Mary.”