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    The Island
    The Island
    The Island
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    The Island

    By Lord Byron

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    Lord Byron was an English poet who became one of the leading figures in the Romantic Movement.  Byron is still considered to be one of the most influential poets in history.  This edition of The Island includes a table of contents.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781531279882
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    Lord Byron was an English poet and the most infamous of the English Romantics, glorified for his immoderate ways in both love and money. Benefitting from a privileged upbringing, Byron published the first two cantos of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage upon his return from his Grand Tour in 1811, and the poem was received with such acclaim that he became the focus of a public mania. Following the dissolution of his short-lived marriage in 1816, Byron left England amid rumours of infidelity, sodomy, and incest. In self-imposed exile in Italy Byron completed Childe Harold and Don Juan. He also took a great interest in Armenian culture, writing of the oppression of the Armenian people under Ottoman rule; and in 1823, he aided Greece in its quest for independence from Turkey by fitting out the Greek navy at his own expense. Two centuries of references to, and depictions of Byron in literature, music, and film began even before his death in 1824.

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      The Island - Lord Byron

      THE ISLAND

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      Lord Byron

      KYPROS PRESS

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      Copyright © 2016 by Lord Byron

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      The Island

      Introduction to The Island

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      Canto The First.

      Canto The Second.

      Canto The Third.

      Canto The Fourth.

      THE ISLAND

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      INTRODUCTION TO THE ISLAND

      The first canto of The Island was finished January 10, 1823. We know that Byron was still at work on the poeshie, January 25 (Letters, 1901, vi. 164), and may reasonably conjecture that a somewhat illegible date affixed to the fourth canto, stands for February 14, 1823. The MS. had been received in London before April 9 (ibid., p. 192); and on June 26, 1823, The Island; or, The Adventures of Christian and his Comrades, was published by John Hunt.

      Byron’s Advertisement, or note, prefixed to The Island contains all that need be said with regard to the sources of the poem.

      Two separate works were consulted: (1) A Narrative of the Mutiny on board His Majesty’s Ship Bounty, and the subsequent Voyage of . . . the Ship’s Boat from Tafoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies, written by Lieutenant William Bligh, 1790; and (2) An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, Compiled and Arranged from the Extensive Communications of Mr. William Mariner, by John Martin, M.D., 1817.

      According to George Clinton (Life and Writings of Lord Byron, 1824, p. 656), Byron was profoundly impressed by Mariner’s report of the scenery and folklore of the Friendly Islands, was never tired of talking of it to his friends, and, in order to turn this poetic material to account, finally bethought him that Bligh’s Narrative of the mutiny of the Bounty would serve as a framework or structure for an embroidery of rare device—the figures and foliage of a tropical pattern. That, at least, is the substance of Clinton’s analysis of the sources of The Island, and whether he spoke, or only feigned to speak, with authority, his criticism is sound and to the point. The story of the mutiny of the Bounty, which is faithfully related in the first canto, is not, as the second title implies, a prelude to the Adventures of Christian and his Comrades, but to a description of The Island, an Ogygia of the South Seas.

      It must be borne in mind that Byron’s acquaintance with the details of the mutiny of the Bounty was derived exclusively from Bligh’s Narrative; that he does not seem to have studied the minutes of the court-martial on Peter Heywood and the other prisoners (September, 1792), or to have possessed the information that in 1809, and, again, in 1815, the Admiralty received authentic information with regard to the final settlement of Christian and his comrades on Pitcairn Island. Articles, however, had appeared in the Quarterly Review, February, 1810, vol. iii. pp. 23, 24, and July, 1815, vol. xiii. pp. 376–378, which contained an extract from the log-book of Captain Mayhew Folger, of the American ship Topaz, dated September 29, 1808, and letters from Folger (March 1, 1813), and Sir Thomas Staines, October 18, 1814, which solved the mystery. Moreover, the article of February, 1810, is quoted in the notes (pp. 313–318) affixed to Miss Mitford’s Christina, the Maid of the South Seas, 1811, a poem founded on Bligh’s Narrative, of which neither Byron or his reviewers seem to have heard.

      But whatever may have been his opportunities of ascertaining

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