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    The Siege of Corinth
    The Siege of Corinth
    The Siege of Corinth
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    The Siege of Corinth

    By Lord Byron

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    Lord Byron was an English poet who became one of the leading figures in the Romantic Movement.  Byron is still considered to be one of the most influential poets in history.  This edition of The Siege of Corinth includes a table of contents.
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    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781531279844
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    Lord Byron

    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 Siege of Corinth - Lord Byron

      THE SIEGE OF CORINTH

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      Lord Byron

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      The Siege of Corinth

      Introduction To The Siege Of Corinth.

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      The Siege of Corinth

      THE SIEGE OF CORINTH

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      INTRODUCTION TO THE SIEGE OF CORINTH.

      In a note to the Advertisement to the Siege of Corinth (vide post, p. 447), Byron puts it on record that during the years 1809–10 he had crossed the Isthmus of Corinth eight times, and in a letter to his mother, dated Patras, July 30, 1810, he alludes to a recent visit to the town of Corinth, in company with his friend Lord Sligo. (See, too, his letter to Coleridge, dated October 27, 1815, Letters, 1899, iii. 228.) It is probable that he revisited Corinth more than once in the autumn of 1810; and we may infer that, just as the place and its surroundings—the temple with its two or three columns (line 497), and the view across the bay from Acro–Corinth—are sketched from memory, so the story of the siege which took place in 1715 is based upon tales and legends which were preserved and repeated by the grandchildren of the besieged, and were taken down from their lips. There is point and meaning in the apparently insignificant line (stanza xxiv. line 765), We have heard the hearers say (see variant i. p. 483), which is slipped into the description of the final catastrophe. It bears witness to the fact that the Siege of Corinth is not a poetical expansion of a chapter in history, but a heightened reminiscence of local tradition.

      History has, indeed, very little to say on the subject. The anonymous Compleat History of the Turks (London, 1719), which Byron quotes as an authority, is meagre and inaccurate. Hammer–Purgstall (Histoire de l’Empire Ottoman, 1839, xiii. 269), who gives as his authorities Girolamo Ferrari and Raschid, dismisses the siege in a few lines; and it was not till the publication of Finlay’s History of Greece (vol. v., a.d. 1453–1821), in 1856, that the facts were known or reported. Finlay’s newly discovered authority was a then unpublished MS. of a journal kept by Benjamin Brue, a connection of Voltaire’s, who accompanied the Grand Vizier, Ali Cumurgi, as his

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