The Prisoner of Chillon
By Lord Byron
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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 Prisoner of Chillon - Lord Byron
THE PRISONER OF CHILLON
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Lord Byron
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The Prisoner of Chillon
Introduction to The Prisoner of Chillon.
Sonnet on Chillon
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The Prisoner of Chillon
THE PRISONER OF CHILLON
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INTRODUCTION TO THE PRISONER OF CHILLON.
The Prisoner of Chillon, says Moore (Life, p. 320), was written at Ouchy, near Lausanne, where Byron and Shelley were detained two days in a small inn [Hôtel de l’Ancre, now d’Angleterre] by the weather.
Byron’s letter to Murray, dated June 27 (but? 28), 1816, does not precisely tally with Shelley’s journal contained in a letter to Peacock, July 12, 1816 (Prose Works of P. B. Shelley, 1880, ii. 171, sq.); but, if Shelley’s first date, June 23, is correct, it follows that the two poets visited the Castle of Chillon on Wednesday, June 26, reached Ouchy on Thursday, June 27, and began their homeward voyage on Saturday, June 29 (Shelley misdates it June 30). On this reckoning