PART I: BYRON'S INTERNATIONAL RECEPTION Byron's 'Fragments of Stone' in the United States Court of Appeals; N.Liassis Byron in America; P.X.Accardo Byron's Influence on Early Canadian Literature; T.Ware Teaching Byron en Acadie:Elle Vous Suit Partout; P.Curtis Claiming a Great Briton for Bulgaria: Reflections on Byron's Bulgarian Reception (1880s-1920s); L.Kostova The Transformations of the Byron Legend: Methodological Reassessment; M.Modrzewsksa PART II: INFLUENCES ON BYRON'S WORK Byron and the Dragons of Eden; M.Gaull My Brother's Keeper: Biblical Heritage in Byron's Cain; W.Z.Hirst Byron and Virgil: 1799-1807; P.Cardinale The Handling of Hebrew Melodies; T.Mole One Ton per Square Foot: The Antecedents to The Vision of Judgment; P.Cochran Heritage and Innovation in Byron's Narrative Stanzas; C.Addison Inheriting Humours, Legating Humour: The Will of Manfred; B.Beatty PART III: BYRON'S LITERARY INHERITORS The Gloom and Cheerfulness of Childe Harold and Elizabeth Bennet; S.Bhattacharji Byron and Wordsworth: Satan's Neo-Classical Romantic Heirs; J.Shears Leigh Hunt and the Free Spirit of Byron; T.Webb Transgressing Romanticism: Byron and Heine's Carnevalesque use of Romantic Irony; A.M.Böhm Byron, Darwin, and Paley: Interrogating Natural Theology; C.Kenyon Jones Byronic Anger and the Victorians; A.M.Stauffer Byron's Legacy with Contributors Remarks; C.A.Wilson