Accession number
PML 146404.29
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from published work.
Numbered "(5)" in the upper right hand corner of sheet.
On verso: The Exordium a Beginning.
Part of a large collection of prints, drawings, and letters bound into an extra-illustrated copy of The poetical works of Lord Byron (PML 146398-15); assembled by collector David Langton and formerly in the possession of John Dillon and Gordon Ray.
Numbered "(5)" in the upper right hand corner of sheet.
On verso: The Exordium a Beginning.
Part of a large collection of prints, drawings, and letters bound into an extra-illustrated copy of The poetical works of Lord Byron (PML 146398-15); assembled by collector David Langton and formerly in the possession of John Dillon and Gordon Ray.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 21.7 cm
Provenance
David Langton; John Dillon; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Manuscript fragment extracted from an autograph manuscript of Byron's English bards and Scotch reviewers, with corrections in the author's hand, of 8 lines of verse, from the fourth stanza of Byron's English bards and Scotch reviewers, including the 6 lines, "Still there are follies een for me to chase ... Ode, epic, elegy, have at you all", preceded by two lines not present in the published text and reading, "Yet though I dare not try Ulysses' bow / Lest the lean shaft recoil & lay me low".
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