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Acknowledgments; Note on texts used; List of abbreviations;Introduction: Byron and the poetics of digression; 1. 'Scorching anddrenching': discourses of digression among Byron's readers; 2. 'Breaches intransition': eighteenth-century digressions and Byron's early verse; 3.Erring with Pope: Hints from Horace and the trouble with decency; 4.Uncertain blisses: Don Juan, digressive intertextuality and the risks ofreception; 5. 'The worst of sinning': Don Juan, moral England and femininecaprice; 6. 'Between carelessness and trouble': Byron's last digressions;Notes; Bibliography; Index.