George Gordon Byron - The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry

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"Swan Green" should be "Swine Green." It lay about a quarter of a mile to the east of St. James's Lane, where Byron lodged in 1799, at the house of a Mr. Gill. The name appears in a directory of 1799, but by 1815 it had been expunged or changed euphoniæ gratiâ . (See A New Plan of the Town of Nottingham , … 1744.)

Moore took down "these rhymes" from the lips of Byron's nurse, May Gray, who regarded them as a first essay in the direction of poetry. He questioned their originality.

[I am indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Pierre De La Rose for sending me a copy of the foregoing Version of Ossian's Address to the Sun , which was "Privately printed at the Press of Oliver B. Graves, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June the Tenth, MDCCCXCVIII.," and was reprinted in the Atlantic Monthly in December, 1898. A prefatory note entitled, "From Lord Byron's Notes," is prefixed to the Version: "In Lord Byron's copy of The Poems of Ossian (printed by Dewick and Clarke, London, 1806), which, since 1874, has been in the possession of the Library of Harvard University as part of the Sumner Bequest. The notes which follow appear in Byron's hand." (For the Notes , see the Atlantic Monthly , 1898, vol. lxxxii. pp. 810-814.)

It is strange that Byron should have made two versions (for another "version" from the Newstead MSS., see Poetical Works , 1898, i. 229-231) of the "Address to the Sun," which forms the conclusion of "Carthon;" but the Harvard version appears to be genuine. It is to be noted that Byron appended to the earlier version eighteen lines of his own composition, by way of moral or application.]

[For Francis Hodgson (1781-1852), see Letters , 1898, i. 195, note 1.]

[Compare Peter Pindar's Ode to a Margate Hoy —

[Murray was "Joe" Murray, an ancient retainer of the "Wicked Lord." Bob was Robert Rushton, the "little page" of "Childe Harold's Good Night." (See Poetical Works , 1899, ii. 26, note 1.)]

[For "the stanza," addressed to the "Princely offspring of Braganza," published in the Morning Post , December 30, 1807, see English Bards, etc. , line 142, note 1, Poetical Works , 1898, i. 308, 309.]

[Dives was William Beckford. See Childe Harold , Canto I. stanza xxii. line 6, Poetical Works , 1899, ii. 37, note 1.]

[For John Cam Hobhouse (1786-1869), afterwards Lord Broughton de Gyfford, see Letters , 1898, i. 163, note i.]

[Fletcher was an indifferent traveller, and sighed for "a' the comforts of the saut-market." See Byron's letters to his mother, November 12, 1809, June 28, 1810. — Letters , 1898, i. 256, 281.]

[Hobhouse's Miscellany (otherwise known as the Miss-sell-any ) was published in 1809, under the title of Imitations and Translations from The Ancient and Modern Classics . Byron contributed nine original poems. The volume was not a success. "It foundered … in the Gulph of Lethe." – Letter to H. Drury, July 17, 1811, Letters , 1898, i. 319.]

[The word "Sale" may have a double meaning. There may be an allusion to George Sale, the Orientalist, and translator of the Koran.]

["In Matthews I have lost my 'guide, philosopher, and friend.'" – Letter to R. C. Dallas, September 7, 1811, Letters , 1898, ii. 25. (For Charles Skinner Matthews, see Letters , 1898, i. 150, note 3.)]

[Compare —

Don Juan , Canto V. stanza xvii. lines 8, 9. The "doctrine" is Horatian, but the words occur in Ovid, Metam. , lib. ii. line 137. — Poetical Works , 1902, vi. 273, note 2.]

[Hobhouse's Journey through Albania and other Provinces of Turkey , 4to, was published by James Cawthorn, in 1813.]

["I am just come from an expedition through the Bosphorus to the Black Sea and the Cyanean Symplegades, up which last I scrambled with as great risk as ever the Argonauts escaped in their hoy. You remember the beginning of the nurse's dole in the Medea [lines 1-7], of which I beg you to take the following translation, done on the summit; – [A 'damned business'] it very nearly was to me; for, had not this sublime passage been in my head, I should never have dreamed of ascending the said rocks, and bruising my carcass in honour of the ancients." – Letter to Henry Drury, June 17, 1810, Letters , 1898, i. 276.

Euripides, Medea , lines 1-7 —

Εἴθ' ὤφελ' Ἀργοῦς μὴ διαπτάσθαι σκάφος κ.τ.λ. ]

["The English Consul … forced a physician upon me, and in three days vomited and glystered me to the last gasp. In this state I made my epitaph – take it." – Letter to Hodgson, October 3, 1810, Letters , 1898, i. 298.]

[For Joseph Blacket (1786-1810), see Letters , 1898, i. 314, note 2; see, too, Poetical Works , 1898, i. 359, note 1, and 441-443, note 2. The Epitaph is of doubtful authenticity.]