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Sonnet on the Nuptials of the Marquis Antonio Cavalli with the
Countess Clelia Rasponi of Ravenna. _MS. M_ 547
Sonnet to the Prince Regent. On the Repeal of Lord Edward
Fitzgerald's Forfeiture. First published, _Letters and
Journals_, ii. 234, 235 548
Stanzas. First published, _New Monthly Magazine_, 1832 549
Ode to a Lady whose Lover was killed by a Ball, which at the
same time shivered a portrait next his heart. _MS. M._ 552 The Irish Avatar. First published, _Conversations of
Lord Byron_, 1824 555 Stanzas written on the Road between Florence and Pisa. First
published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 566, not 562 Stanzas to a Hindoo Air. First published, _Works of Lord Byron_ 563 To ---- First published, _New Monthly Magazine_, 1833 564 To the Countess of Blessington. First published,
_Letters and Journals_, 1830 565
Aristomanes. Canto First. _MS. D._ 566

The Blues: A Literary Eclogue.

Introduction to _The Blues_ 569
_The Blues_. Eclogue the First 573
Eclogue the Second 580
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
1. Lord Byron, from an Engraving after a Drawing by G. H. Harlowe
2. The Prison of Bonivard
3. The Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, from a Portrait in Oils by Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., in the Possession of Mrs. Horace Pym of Foxwold Chace
4. The Right Honourable John Hookham Frere, from a Mezzotint by
5. W. Barney, after a Picture by John Hoppner, R.A.
6. Robert Southey, Poet Laureate, from a Drawing made in 1811 by John Downman, A.R.A., in the Possession of A. H. Hallam Murray, Esq.
THE PRISONER OF CHILLON
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 [H?tel 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 the _Prisoner of Chillon_ was begun and finished between Thursday, June 27, and Saturday, June 29, 1816. Whenever or wherever begun, it was completed by July 10 (see _Memoir of John Murray_, 1891, i. 364), and was ready for transmission to England by July 25. The MS., in Claire's handwriting, was placed in Murray's hands on October 11, and the poem, with seven others, was published December 5, 1816.
In a final note to the _Prisoner of Chillon_ (First Edition, 1816, p. 59), Byron confesses that when "the foregoing poem was composed he knew too little of the history of Bonnivard to do justice to his courage and virtues," and appends as a note to the "Sonnet on Chillon," "some account of his life ... furnished by the kindness of a citizen of that Republic," i.e. Geneva. The note, which is now entitled "Advertisement," is taken bodily from the pages of a