Hours of Idleness

Hours of Idleness was the first volume of poetry published by Lord Byron, in 1807, when he was 19 years old.

The full title was Hours of Idleness; a Series of Poems Original and Translated, by George Gordon, Lord Byron, a Minor.

Of these, nineteen came from the original Fugitive Pieces volume, while eight had first appeared in Poems on Various Occasions.

The "Fragment of a Translation from the 9th Book of Virgil's Aeneid" was included as "The Episode of Nisus and Euryalus, A Paraphrase from the Æneid, Lib.

In a letter to John Cam Hobhouse, Byron wrote of his reaction: "As an author, I am cut to atoms by the E[dinburgh] Review, it is just out, and has completely demolished my little fabric of fame."