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April 25th 1816: Byron leaves England for good
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April 25th 1816: Byron leaves England for good.
from Scott to J.B.S.Morritt, November 26th 1816: (Source: Grierson 1815-17, 296-7) By the way, I have just received Childe Harold, part 3rd. Lord Byron has more avowedly identified himself with his personage than upon former occasions, and in truth does not affect to separate them. It is wilder and less sweet, I think, than the first part, but contains even darker and more powerful pourings forth of the spirit which boils within him. I question whether there ever lived a man who, without looking abroad for subjects excepting as they produced an effect on himself, has contrived to render long poems turning almost entirely upon the feelings, character, and emotions of the author, so deeply interesting. We gazed on the powerful and ruined mind which he presents us as on a shattered castle, within whose walls, once intended for nobler guests, sorcerers and wild demons are supposed to hold their Sabbaths. There is something dreadful in reflecting that one gifted so much above his fellow-creatures, should thus labour under some strange mental malady that destroys his peace of mind and happiness, altho’ it cannot quench the fire of his genius. I fear the termination will be fatal in one way or other, for it seems impossible that human nature can support the constant working of an imagination so dark and so strong. Suicide or utter insanity is not unlikely to close the scene. “Orandum sit,” as the sapine Partridge says, “ut sit mens sana in corpore sano”. from John Murray to Byron, from 50, Albemarle Street, London, February 18th 1817: (Source: text from NLS Ms.43495; LJM 196-8) Evidence that Byron read Scott’s review of Childe Harold III, which follows, knowing it to be by Scott. Murray has sent him proofs. London Feb. 18 – 1817 My Lord 44: Charles Maturin, whose tragedy Bertram is put on on May 9th 1816, with Byron’s encouragement. Kean plays the lead and Hobhouse writes the prologue. I inclose the Sheets of an Article on Childe Harold torn from my “Mail Coach” Copy of the Edinburgh Review 45 – I hope you received some ten days since the pages on the same subject in the Quarterly and then I think you ought to feel compleatly satisfied – as I am – like Mahomed your fame is suspended between these two literary attractives. 46 – Jeffery & Walter Scott are the authors of these critiques – and so you may be satisfied that I am ready for another Copy right whenever you are. (letter continues ) Download 1.07 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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