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My Recollections of Lord Byron, and Those of Eye-Witnesses of His Life [tr. by Sir H.e.h. Jerningham].
My Recollections of Lord Byron and Those of EyeWitnesses of His Life - tr. by Sir H.e.h. Jerningham Author:Teresa Guiccioli General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1869 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER I. LORD BYRON AND M. DE LAMARTINE. To Count de . MY DEAR COUNT, Paris, 17th June, 1860. Confiding in your willingness to oblige, I beg to ask a favour and your advice. I received, a short time ago, a prospectus of a subscription to be raised for a general edition of the works of M. de Lamartine. You are aware that when it is a question of showing my sympathy for M. de Lamartino I would never miss the opportunity of doing so; but on this occasion I see on the programme the promise of a Life of Lord Byron. Such an announcement must alarm the friends of that great man; for they remember too vividly the sixteenth number of the ' Cours Littcraire' to subscribe hastily to a work when they have not more information than is therein given. You, who forget nothing, must probably remember the strange judgment of Byron formed by M. de Lamartine in that article. Identifying the man with the poet, and associating his great name with that of Heine on account of some rather hazardous lines in ' Don Juan,' and forgetting the license allowed to such poetry -- an imitation of the Italian poets Berni, Ariosto, Pulci, Buratti -- M. de Lamartine did not forget a few personal attacks upon himself, and called Byron thefounder of the school for promoting satanic laughter, whilst he heaped upon him the most monstrous accusations. M. de Lamartine ventured to say of Byron things which even his greatest enemies never dared to utter at that time when in England it was the custom to revile him. Although the time has not yet come when Lord Byron's Life should be written, since the true sources of collecting information re...« less