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    The Bride of Abydos
    The Bride of Abydos
    The Bride of Abydos
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    The Bride of Abydos

    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 Bride of Abydos includes a table of contents.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781531279936
    The Bride of Abydos
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    Lord Byron

    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 Bride of Abydos - Lord Byron

      THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS

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      Lord Byron

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      Copyright © 2016 by Lord Byron

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      The Bride of Abydos

      Introduction to the The Bride of Abydos.

      Canto the First.

      Canto the Second.

      THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS

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      INTRODUCTION TO THE THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS.

      Many poets — Wordsworth, for instance — have been conscious in their old age that an interest attaches to the circumstances of the composition of their poems, and have furnished their friends and admirers with explanatory notes. Byron recorded the motif and occasion of the Bride of Abydos while the poem was still in the press. It was written, he says, to divert his mind, to wring his thoughts from reality to imagination — from selfish regrets to vivid recollections (Diary, December 5, 1813, Letters, ii. 361), to distract his dreams from . . . (Diary, November 16) for the sake of employment (Letter to Moore, November 30, 1813). He had been staying during part of October and November at Aston Hall, Rotherham, with his friend James Wedderburn Webster, and had fallen in love with his friend’s wife, Lady Frances. From a brief note to his sister, dated November 5, we learn that he was in a scrape, but in no immediate peril, and from the lines, Remember him, whom Passion’s power (vide ante, p. 67), we may infer that he had sought safety in flight. The Bride of Abydos, or Zuleika, as it was first entitled, was written early in November, in four nights (Diary, November 16), or in a week (Letter to Gifford, November 12) — the reckoning goes for little — as a counter-irritant to the pain and distress of amour interrompu.

      The confession or apology is eminently characteristic. Whilst the Giaour was still in process of evolution, still lengthening its rattles, another Turkish poem is offered to the public, and the natural explanation, that the author is in vein, and can score another trick, is felt to be inadequate and dishonouring — To withdraw myself from myself, he confides to his Diary(November 27), has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive for scribbling at all.

      It is more than probable that in his twenty-sixth year Byron had not attained to perfect self-knowledge, but there is no reason to question his sincerity.

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