Poetry
supplied the groundwork of this tale; but for the story so circumstantially set forth (see Medwin's _Conversations_, 1824, pp. 121, 124) of his having been the lover of this female slave, there is no foundation. The girl whose life the poet saved at Athens was not, we are assu...
before Nathan's folio, which was advertised for the first time in the _Morning Chronicle_, April 6, 1815; and it is possible that the first public announcement of the _Hebrew Me...
10. Chapter 10According to Moore, this passage in _The Corsair_, as Byron seemed to fear, was included by "some scribblers"--i.e. the "lumbering Goth" (see John Bull's Letter), A. A. Watts, i...
6. Chapter 6The First Edition amounted to 1859 lines (the numeration, owing to the inclusion of broken lines, is given as 1863), and falls short of the existing text by the last four lines...
1. Chapter 1supplied the groundwork of this tale; but for the story so circumstantially set forth (see Medwin's _Conversations_, 1824, pp. 121, 124) of his having been the lover of this fem...
3. Chapter 34. Forty additional lines to stanza xx. of Canto II., beginning, "For thee in those bright isles," and being the first draft of the addition as printed in the Revises of Novembe...
5. Chapter 5{A} _In this line I have not drawn from fiction but memory--that mirror of regret memory--the too faithful mirror of affliction the long vista through which we gaze. Someone has...
2. Chapter 2[86] The celebrated fabulous ruby of Sultan Giamschid, the embellisher of Istakhar; from its splendour, named Schebgerag [Schabchir[=a]gh], "the torch of night;" also "the cup o...
12. Chapter 12[424] {519} ["I admire the fabrication of the 'big Tear,' which is very fine--much larger, by the way, than Shakespeare's."--Letter of John Murray to Lord Byron (_Memoir of John...
4. Chapter 4After the completion of the fair copy of the MS. of the _Bride of Abydos_, seventy lines were added to stanza xx. of Canto II. In both MSS. the rough and fair copies, the stanza...
8. Chapter 8[205] {247} By night, particularly in a warm latitude, every stroke of the oar, every motion of the boat or ship, is followed by a slight flash like sheet lightning from the water.
9. Chapter 9[223] {265} In Sir Thomas More, for instance, on the scaffold, and Anne Boleyn, in the Tower, when, grasping her neck, she remarked, that it "was too slender to trouble the head...
7. Chapter 7[197] {227} The time in this poem may seem too short for the occurrences, but the whole of the Ægean isles are within a few hours' sail of the continent, and the reader must be...