| Evidence: | 'In 1809 [Anne Isabella Milbanke] wrote the Lines supposed to be spoken at the Grave of Dermody. It is one of the earliest of her compositions extant [goes on to quote 11 lines from poem, beginning with "Degraded genius! o'er the untimely grave / In which the tumults of thy breast were still'd, / The rank weeds wave...."] [...] These, with some other verses, were sent to Byron for his opinion, in 1812, by Annabella's cousin-by-marriage, Lady Caroline Lamb. He liked the Dermody lines "so much that I could wish they were in rhyme."' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1812 and 31 Dec 1812 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | George Gordon Lord Byron |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 22 1788 |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Anne Isabella Milbanke |
| Title: | 'Lines Supposed to be Spoken at the Grave of Dermody' and other verses |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 26052 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Ethel Colburn Mayne | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | The Life and Letters of Anne Isabella, Lady Noel Byron | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1929 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 12-13 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Ethel Colburn Mayne, The Life and Letters of Anne Isabella, Lady Noel Byron (London, 1929), p. 12-13, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26052, accessed: 19 June 2013 | |
| Source author explains that 'The Irish [poet] Thomas Dermody [...] had drunk himself to madness and death in 1802' (p.12). |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 19th Oct 2010 12:58pm (GMT)