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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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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 April 2024 |
Source author explains that 'The Irish [poet] Thomas Dermody [...] had drunk himself to madness and death in 1802' (p.12). |
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