√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 One of my many visitors this summer, - R.M. Milnes, made earnest enquiry for you. I do hope you like his poetry almost as much as he likes yours. I keep a vol. of his a... Harriet Martineau R.M. Milnes Print : BookByron to editor of a Venice newspaper, denying that Napoleon was the protagonist of (?) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III, [?April 1817]: 'Sir, In your Journal of 27th... George Gordon Lord Byron [newspaper] Print : NewspaperUnknown1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817, having observed upon preservation of black veil over Falieri's picture, and the staircase on which he was beheaded at the Doge's Palac... George Gordon Lord Byron Johan Christoph von Schiller Geisterseher Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817: 'There have been two Articles in the Venice papers one a review of C. Lamb's "Glenarvon" ... the other a review of C[hilde] Har[ol]d i... George Gordon Lord Byron reviews of Caroline Lamb, Glenarvon, and Byron, Ch... Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to Samuel Rogers, 4 April 1817: 'Will you remember me to Ld. and Lady Holland -- I have to thank the former for a book which I have not yet received -- but expect t... George Gordon Lord Byron Lord Holland Some Account of the Life and Writings of Lope Feli... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1817: 'I will tell you something about [The Prisoner of] Chillon. -- A Mr. De Luc ninety years old -- a Swiss -- had it read to him & is ple... John Andre de Luc George Gordon Lord Byron The Prisoner of Chillon Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1817: 'I will tell you something about [The Prisoner of] Chillon. -- A Mr. De Luc ninety years old -- a Swiss -- had it read to him & is ple... George Gordon Lord Byron Jean-Jacques Rousseau Confessions Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 14 April 1817: 'I have read a good deal of Voltaire lately ... what I dislike is his extreme inaccuracy ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Voltaire unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 9 May 1817: 'The "Tales of my Landlord" I have read with great pleasure ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott Tales of my Landlord Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray 9 July 1817: 'I have got the sketch & extracts from Lallah Rookh ... the plan as well as the extract I have seen please me very much indeed ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Moore Lallah Rookh Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 July 1817: '[John] Murray ... has contrived to send me extracts from Lalla Rookh ... They are taken from some magazine, and contain a short outl... George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Moore Lallah Rookh (extracts) Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 15 July 1817: 'I lent [M. G.] Lewis who is at Venice ... your extracts from Lalla Rookh -- & Manuel -- out of contradiction it may be -- he likes th... Matthew Gregory Lewis Thomas Moore Lallah Rookh (extracts) Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 15 July 1817: 'I lent [M. G.] Lewis who is at Venice ... your extracts from Lalla Rookh -- & Manuel -- out of contradiction it may be -- he likes th... Matthew Gregory Lewis Charles Robert Maturin Manuel Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817: 'I have read 'Lallah Rookh' -- but not with sufficient attention yet -- for I ride about -- & lounge -- & ponder & -- two or thre... George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Moore Lallah Rookh Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am the more confirmed in this - by having lately gone ... George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Moore [poems] Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am the more confirmed in this - by having lately gone ... George Gordon Lord Byron Alexander Pope [poems] Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am the more confirmed in this - by having lately gone ... George Gordon Lord Byron George Gordon Lord Byron [poems] Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'In Coleridge's life I perceive an attack upon the then Committee of D[rury] L[ane] Theatre - for acting Bertram ... this is not ve... George Gordon Lord Byron Samuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'I heard Mr. Lewis translate verbally some scenes of Goethe's Faust ... last Summer ...' Matthew Gregory Lewis Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'Of the Prometheus of AEschylus I was passionately fond as a boy - (it was one of the Greek plays we read thrice a year at Harrow) ... George Gordon Lord Byron Aeschylus Prometheus Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 15 December 1817: 'I think your Elegy a remarkably good one ... I do not know whether you wished me to retain the copy, but I shall ret... George Gordon Lord Byron Richard Belgrave Hoppner Elegy Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Ro... Patricia Beer Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'The books I have read, or rather am reading -- pray who may be the Sexagenarian -- whose gossip... George Gordon Lord Byron Rev. William Beloe The Sexagenarian, or Recollections of a Literary L... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'With the Reviews I have been much entertained -- it requires to be as far from England as I am ... George Gordon Lord Byron [Reviews] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to Samuel Rogers, 3 March 1818: 'I read my death in the papers, which was not true.' George Gordon Lord Byron [obituary] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 25 March 1818: 'Rose's Animali I never saw till a few days ago ...' George Gordon Lord Byron William Stewart Rose The Court and Parliament of Beasts, freely transla... Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 15 July 1818: '... I see by the papers that Captain Lew Chew [ie Captain Sir Murray Maxwell, formerly explorer of the Loo-Choo Islands and now ... George Gordon Lord Byron [Italian Gazettes] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1818: 'I have seen one or two late English publications -- which are no great things --except Rob Roy.' George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott Rob Roy Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 30 September 1818: "' saw the other day by accident your "Historical &c." -- the Essay [on Italian literature, actually by Ugo Foscolo] is per... George Gordon Lord Byron John Cam Hobhouse Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Ch... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, explaining reasons for animosity toward Robert Southey: 'I have read his review of Hunt [in the Quarterly Review], where he has at... George Gordon Lord Byron Review of Leigh Hunt, Foliage Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Literary Character", in which marginal remarks from Byr... George Gordon Lord Byron Isaac Disraeli The Literary Character Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Literary Character", in which marginal remarks from Byr... George Gordon Lord Byron Isaac Disraeli The Literary Character Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 12 December 1818, on Hobhouse's election campaign: 'I saw your late Speech in Galignani's newspaper -- & with all the disfiguration & curtailm... George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's newspaper Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to the Editor of Galingani's Messenger, 27 April 1819: 'Sir, -- In various numbers of your Journal -- I have seen mentioned a work entitled "The Vampire" with the a... George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's Messenger Print : Advertisement, Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to Charles, 8th Lord Kinnaird, 15 May 1819: 'Three years & some months ago when you were reding [sic] "Bertram" at your brother's -- on my exclaiming in the words o... Charles 8th Lord Kinnaird Charles Robert Maturin Bertram Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 18 May 1819: 'I have read Parson Hodgson's "Friends" in which he seems to display his knowledge of the Subject by a covert Attack or two on Some of ... George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Hodgson The Friends: a Poem Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bottom of the page after the last stanza of Canto 44, ... George Gordon Lord Byron Ludovico Ariosto Orlando Furioso Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bottom of the page after the last stanza of Canto 44, ... George Gordon Lord Byron Count Vittorio Alfieri [marginalia] Manuscript : Unknown, marginal note in MS of Ariosto, Orlando Furioso1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: "In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bottom of the page after the last stanza of Canto 44, ... Count Vittorio Alfieri Ludovico Ariosto Orlando Furioso Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 6 June 1819: 'I found ... such a pretty epitaph in the Certosa Cimetery -- or rather two -- one was
"Martini Luigi
Implora pace... George Gordon, Lord Byron n/a n/a Manuscript : Unknown, tombstone epitaphs1800-1849 Byron to Lady Byron, 20 July 1819: 'I tried to discover for Leigh Hunt some traces of Francesca [character in Dante's Inferno] -- but except her father Guido's tomb -- an... George Gordon Lord Byron Benvenuto da Imola Commentary on Dante, Commedia Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 23 August 1819, about her copy of Italian translation of Corinne: 'I have read this book in your garden ... you were absent -- or I co... George Gordon Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein Corinne Print : Book1800-1849 John Wilson Croker to his wife, 20 July 1815:
'[General] Becker showed us a copy of Buonaparte's letter to the Prince Regent, in which he
says that driven out of hom... John Wilson Croker Napoleon Bonaparte letter to the Prince Regent Manuscript : Unknown, Copied.1900-1945 '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her grea... Mary Augusta Ward Aeschylus Agamemnon Print : Book1850-1899 ?the snow left off a bit after lunch & we strolled out for a walk? so after pounding a mile or two out & home along slushy snow-paths we came home rather disgusted & boug... Leslie Stephen Plato Print : Book1850-1899 'George Acorn, growing up in extreme poverty in London's East End, scraped together 31/2 d to buy a used copy of David Copperfield. His parents punished him when they lea... George Acorn Charles Dickens David Copperfield Print : Book1500-1599 When he was ordained, the Bishop (who in those days was primus Presbyter, or Praeses) seeking to oppose him, asked him this Question, Have you read the Bible through? Yes... John Carter [n/a] Old Testament Print : Book1500-1599 When he was ordained, the Bishop (who in those days was primus Presbyter, or Praeses) seeking to oppose him, asked him this Question, Have you read the Bible through? Yes... John Carter [n/a] New Testament Print : Book1500-1599 For his carriage and deportment in his Family, it was sober, grave, and very Religious. He there offered up the Morning and Evening Sacrifice of Prayer, and praise conti... John Carter [n/a] Scriptures Print : Book1800-1849 [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here]
'Pastor Fido
... Percy Bysshe Shelley John Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding, An Print : Book1700-1799 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him... Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia Joseph Addison works Print : Book1800-1849 'If it had not been for Dugald Gilchrist who reads any thing (or nothing) and wears spectacles besides, I should undoubtedly have curled my hair with your Examiner, witho... Jane Baillie Welsh Leigh Hunt The Wishing Cap Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I have been reading John Racine: it is very standard − damnd[sic] standard, I beg your pardon.[…] I like John Racine, however; the noise is very pleasing and as un... Robert Louis Stevenson Jean Racine unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'There is only one very good thing in the world: the acting of Sarah Bernhardt. I beg your pardon, there is another: Pierre Veron’s "Pantheon de Poche".' Robert Louis Stevenson Pierre Veron Le Pantheon de Poche Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, '[After Feb 7, 1820?]' (translated from Italian) : 'I have read the "few lines" of your note with all due attention ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Countess Teresa Guiccioli [letter] Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, and am more and more delighted. I think that I even... George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott [novels] Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, and am more and more delighted. I think that I even... George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott [poems] Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at least once a day for an hour or so. The last are too hu... George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott The Bride of Lammermoor Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at least once a day for an hour or so. The last are too hu... George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott A Legend of Montrose Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 29 March 1820: 'I congratulate you on your change of residence, which I perceive by the papers, took place on the dissolution of King and parl... George Gordon Lord Byron [newspapers] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 25 May 1820: 'A German named Rupprecht has sent me heaven knows why several Deutsche Gazettes of all which I understand neither word no... George Gordon Lord Byron German periodicals Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 7 June 1820: '[Goethe's] Faust I never read -- for I don't know German -- but Matthew Monk Lewis in 1816 at Coligny translated most of it to me viva... Matthew Gregory Lewis Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'Galignani has just sent me the Paris edition of your works (which I wrote to order), and I am glad to see my old friends with a Frenc... George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Moore Works Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then in my fifteenth summer.' George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Moore Poems of the Late Thomas Little Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then in my fifteenth summer.' George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Moore Poems of the Late Thomas Little Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sanuto -- Sandi -- Navagero -- & an anonymous Siege of... George Gordon Lord Byron Marino Sanuto "Italian history of the Doges of Venice" Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sanuto -- Sandi -- Navagero -- & an anonymous Siege of... George Gordon Lord Byron unknown "Siege of Zara" Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sanuto -- Sandi -- Navagero -- & an anonymous Siege of... George Gordon Lord Byron Pierre Antoine Daru unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sanuto -- Sandi -- Navagero -- & an anonymous Siege of... George Gordon Lord Byron Jean Charles Sismondi History of the Italian Republics in the Middle Age... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 22 July 1820, about books received: 'the diary of an Invalid good and true bating a few mistakes about "Serventismo" which no foreigner can understa... George Gordon Lord Byron Henry Matthews Diary of an Invalid Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, on current reading habits, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I like sometimes to read one book and sometimes another, a few pag... George Gordon Lord Byron unknown [books] Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): '... I read in the Gazette of an Irish lady of 37 who has run away with a young Englishman of... George Gordon Lord Byron Gazette Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 7 August 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I am reading the second volume of the proposal of that classical cuckold Perticari ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Count Giulio Perticari Dell'amor patrio di Dante Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 8 August 1820: 'Fletcher reads you in Galignani -- and comes grinning over your speeches to me -- he has already noted Seventeen ...' William Fletcher Galignani's Newspaper Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 29 September 1820: '... on reading more of the 4 volumes on Italy [attacked by Byron in note to Marino Faliero] ... I perceive (horresco referens [V... George Gordon Lord Byron Jane Waldie Sketches Descriptive of Italy Print : Book1500-1599 'I Came home, where I did litle good but talked of many maters, litle concerning me, with Mrs Ormston, to whom a read a whill of the Bible' Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1820: 'I have read lately several speeches of Hobhouse in taverns -- his Eloquence is better than his company.' George Gordon Lord Byron John Cam Hobhouse [speeches] Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 4 November 1820: 'I have read part of the Quarterly just arrived ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Quarterly Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here]
'Pastor Fido
... Percy Bysshe Shelley Jean Antoine de Cerceau Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, ty... Print : Book1800-1849 [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here]
'Pastor Fido
... Percy Bysshe Shelley Homer [Iliad / Odyssey] Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: ' ... out of spirits -- read the papers ...' George Gordon Lord Byron papers Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821, having remarked how case of murder in papers mentioned use of copy of Richardson's Pamela by grocer ... George Gordon Lord Byron [poetry] Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: 'Came home at eleven [pm] ... Read a Life of Leonardo da Vinci by Rossi [ed. notes that this perhaps... George Gordon Lord Byron Guiseppe Bossi Del Cenacolo do Leonardo da Vinci OR Delle Opinion... Print : BookUnknown1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read the conclusion, for the fifitieth time (I have read all W. Scott's novels at least fifty times... George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott Tales of my Landlord (3rd series) Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's Retreat of the Ten Thousand.' George Gordon Lord Byron William Mitford History of Greece Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's Retreat of the Ten Thousand.' George Gordon Lord Byron Xenophon Retreat of the Ten Thousand Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: '[after visit to friends at 11pm] Came home -- read the "Ten Thousand" again, and will go to bed.' George Gordon Lord Byron Xenophon Retreat of the Ten Thousand Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Ordered Fletcher (at four o'clock this afternoon) to copy out 7 or 8 apophthegms of Bacon, in which... George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Bacon "apophthegms" Manuscript : Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet).1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Ordered Fletcher (at four o'clock this afternoon) to copy out 7 or 8 apophthegms of Bacon, in whiic... William Fletcher Francis Bacon "apophthegms" Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders in nine apophthegms of Bacon -- all historical -- an... George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Bacon "apophthegms" Manuscript : Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet).1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders in nine apophthegms of Bacon -- all historical -- an... George Gordon Lord Byron Joseph Spence Anecdotes Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders in nine apophthegms of Bacon -- all historical -- and... George Gordon Lord Byron William Mitford History of Greece Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto in Lord Holland's Lope de Vega.' George Gordon Lord Byron Pierre Louis Ginguene Histoire Litteraire de l'Italie Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto in Lord Holland's Lope de Vega.' George Gordon Lord Byron Lord Holland Lope de Vega Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Came home [after going visiting at 8pm], and read Mitford again, and played with my mastiff ...' George Gordon Lord Byron William Mitford History of Greece Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a passage I have not found. Read the 4th. vol. of W. ... George Gordon Lord Byron Joseph Spence Anecdotes Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a passage I have not found. Read the 4th. vol. of W. ... George Gordon Lord Byron William Roscoe The Life of Lorenzo de Medici, called the Magnific... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read the 4th. vol of W. Scott's second series of "Tales of my Landlord".' George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott Tales of my Landlord (2nd series) Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined. Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forget what. At 8 went to conversazione.' George Gordon Lord Byron Lugano Gazette Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined. Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forget what. At 8 went to conversazione.' George Gordon Lord Byron unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'It wants half an hour of midnight ... Turned over and over half a score books for the passage in qu... George Gordon Lord Byron unknown [books] Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at 8pm] -- read History of Greece -- beore dinner had r... George Gordon Lord Byron William Mitford History of Greece Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at 8pm] -- read History of Greece -- beore dinner had r... George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott Rob Roy Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 9 January 1821: 'Dined. Read Johnson's "Vanity of Human Wishes" ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Samuel Johnson The Vanity of Human Wishes Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -- marked errors of Tom (the author) for correction. ... George Gordon Lord Byron accounts Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -- marked errors of Tom (the author) for correction. ... George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Campbell Specimens of the British Poets (including prefator... Print : BookUnknown1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: '[after going out to hear music] Came home -- read. Corrected Tom Campbell's slips of the pen.' George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Campbell Specimens of the British Poets (including prefator... Print : BookUnknown1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets.' George Gordon Lord Byron various Lives of poets Print : BookUnknown1700-1799 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets. I rarely read their works, unles... George Gordon Lord Byron Alexander Pope unknown Print : Book1700-1799 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets. I rarely read their works, unles... George Gordon Lord Byron John Dryden unknown Print : Book1700-1799 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets. I rarely read their works, unles... George Gordon Lord Byron Samuel Johnson unknown 1700-1799 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets. I rarely read their works, unles... George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Gray unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Read the letters ... Dined ...' George Gordon Lord Byron letters Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Dined ... Went out -- returned ... read Poets, and an anecdote in Spence.' George Gordon Lord Byron [Poets] Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Dined ... Went out -- returned ... read Poets, and an anecdote in Spence.' George Gordon Lord Byron Joseph Spence Anecdotes Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'In reading, I have just chanced upon an expression of Tom Campbell's; speaking of Collins, he says... George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Campbell Specimens of the British Poets (including prefator... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821, on visit to plain of Troy in 1810: ' ... I read "Homer Travestied" (the first twelve books), becaus... George Gordon Lord Byron Anon. Homer Travestie; Being a new translation of that g... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Read the Poets -- English that is to say -- out of Campbell's edition. There is a good deal of ta... George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Campbell Specimens of the British Poets (including prefator... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'How strange are my thoughts! -- The reading of the song of Milton, "Sabrina fair" has brought back... George Gordon Lord Byron John Milton Sabrina Fair Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821, on memories of Cambridge life with friend Edward Noel Long: 'I remember our buying, with vast alacr... George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Edward Noel Young. Thomas Moore Epistles, Odes and Other Poems Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Midnight. Read the Italian translation by Guido Sorelli of the German Grillparzer ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Franz Grillparzer Sappho Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schiller, and Wieland, than I could wish. I only know th... George Gordon Lord Byron Johann Wolfgang von Goethe unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schiller, and Wieland, than I could wish. I only know th... George Gordon Lord Byron Schiller unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schiller, and Wieland, than I could wish. I only know th... George Gordon Lord Byron Christoph Martin Wieland unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 January 1821: 'Sketched the outline and Drams. Pers. of an intended tragedy of Sardanapalus ... read over a passa... George Gordon Lord Byron William Mitford History of Greece Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Turned over Seneca's tragedies. Wrote the opening lines of the intended tragedy of Sardanapalus.' George Gordon Lord Byron Seneca tragedies Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, and some other books.' George Gordon Lord Byron Seneca tragedies Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, and some other books.' George Gordon Lord Byron Diodorus Siculus unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: '... dined -- dipped into a volume of Mitford's Greece -- wrote part of a scene of "Sardanapalus".' George Gordon Lord Byron William Mitford History of Greece Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: 'In the year 1814, Moore ... and I were going together, in the same carriage, to dine with Earl Gre... Thomas Moore Javanese newspaper Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols -- returned -- dined ...' George Gordon Lord Byron unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 17 January 1821: 'Arrived a packet of books from England and Lombardy -- English, Italian, French, and Latin. Read ... George Gordon Lord Byron unknown [various books] Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 January 1821: '... the post arriving late, did not ride. Read letters ...' George Gordon Lord Byron letters Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 19 January 1821: 'I have been reading the Life, by himself and daughter, of Mr. R. L. Edgeworth, the father of the M... George Gordon Lord Byron Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth Memoirs Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 January 1821: 'Rode -- fired pistols. Read from Grimm's Correspondence. Dined ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Friedrich Melchior Grimm Correspondence Litteraire Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 21 January 1821: 'Dined -- visited -- came home -- read. Remarked on an anecdote in Grimm's Correspondence ... [rep... George Gordon Lord Byron Friedrich Melchior Grimm Correspondence Litteraire Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols, and returned.' George Gordon Lord Byron unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Dined -- read. Went out at eight ...' George Gordon Lord Byron unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 25 January 1821: 'Answered [John] Murray's letter -- read -- lounged.' George Gordon Lord Byron unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 28 January 1821 entry: 'Past Midnight. One o' the clock. I have been reading W[ilhelm]. F[riedrich]. S[chlegel] ..... George Gordon Lord Byron Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel History of Literature Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 29 January 1821 entry: 'Read S[chlegel].' George Gordon Lord Byron Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel History of Literature Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 31 January 1821 entry: 'Midnight. I have been reading Grimm's Correspondence.' George Gordon Lord Byron Friedrich Melchior Grimm Correspondence Litteraire Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 2 February 1821, on tendency to attacks of thirst: 'I read in Edgeworth's Memoirs of something similar ... in the ca... George Gordon Lord Byron Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth Memoirs Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: ' ... dined -- read -- went out ...' George Gordon Lord Byron unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: 'Read some of Bowles's dispute about Pope, with all the replies and rejoinders. Perceive that my n... George Gordon Lord Byron William Lisle Bowles various Print : Serial / periodicalUnknown1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 February 1821: 'Today read a little in Louis B.'s Hollande ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Louis Buonaparte Documents Historiques, et Reflexions sur le Gouver... Print : Book, Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 February 1821: 'At nine [pm] went out -- at eleven returned ... Read "Tales of my Landlord" ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott Tales of my Landlord Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 February 1821: 'In turning over Grimm's Correspondence to-day, I found a thought of Tom Moore's in a song of Maup... George Gordon Lord Byron Friedrich Melchior Grimm Correspondence Litteraire Print : BookByron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 February 1821: 'Within these few days I have read, but not written.' George Gordon Lord Byron unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 February 1821:'"... rode, &c. -- visited -- wrote nothing -- read Roman History.' George Gordon Lord Byron Roman history Unknown 1600-1699 'God... did cast into my hand, one day, a book of "Martin Luther", his comment on the "Galathians", so old that it was ready to fall piece from piece, if I did but turn i... John Bunyan Martin Luther Commentary on the Galations Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1821: 'I have just read in an Italian paper "That Ld. B. has a tragedy coming out" &c. &c ... I do reiterate -- and desire that every thi... George Gordon Lord Byron Italian newspaper Print : NewspaperUnknown1500-1599 'and then hard one of the men read of the book of marters, and so went to bed' Margaret Hoby John Foxe Book of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts an... Print : Book1800-1849 In letter to John Murray of 21 February 1821, Byron makes various comments and corrections, with page references, on William Turner, Journal of a Tour in the Levant (and ... George Gordon Lord Byron William Turner Journal of a Tour in the Levant Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 1 March 1821: 'Give my love to Sir W. Scott -- & tell him to write more novels; -- pray send out Waverley and the Guy M[annering] -- and the Antiqua... George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott [various novels] Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821, on death of Keats after adverse reviews: 'I read the review of "Endymion" in the Quarterly. It was severe. -- but surely not so sev... George Gordon Lord Byron John Wilson Croker review of John Keats, Endymion Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821: 'I read [The] Cenci ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley The Cenci Unknown 1700-1799 Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821: 'The moment I could read -- my grand passion was history ... I was particularly taken with the battle near the Lake Regillus i... George Gordon Lord Byron unknown Roman History Print : Book1700-1799 Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821, on studies with tutor (Paterson): 'With him I began Latin in Ruddiman's Grammar ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Ruddiman Latin Grammar Print : BookByron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over (with the notes) with great pleasure. I receive yo... George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Hodgson Childe Harold's Monitor, or Lines occasioned by th... Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over (with the notes) with great pleasure. I receive yo... George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Hodgson Saeculo Mastix, or the Lash of the Age we live in Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; 'Two hours after the "Ave Maria", the Italian date of twilight ... I have ... dined, and turned over yr. notes.' George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Hodgson Notes to (?) Childe Harold's Monitor, or Lines Occ... Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 29 June 1821: 'Instead of receiving a letter from you per post -- I have been reading one in the papers -- as secondary to Burdett and Canning.... George Gordon Lord Byron Douglas Kinnaird letter (ie article?) Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 29 June 1821: 'I have just read "John Bull's letter" -- it is diabolically well written -- & full of fun and ferocity' [goes on to speculate as to w... George Gordon Lord Byron J. G. Lockhart John Bull's Letter to Lord Byron Print : Pamphlet1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 5 July 1821: 'I have had a curious letter to-day from a girl in England ... It is signed simply N. N. A. ... She simply says that she is dying, and... George Gordon Lord Byron [N. N. A.] anon [private letter] Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 6 July 1821: 'At the particular request of the Countess G[uiccioli] I have promised not to continue Don Juan ... She had read the two first [cantos]... Countess Teresa Guiccioli George Gordon Lord Byron Don Juan (Cantos I and II) Print : BookManuscript : LetterByron to Thomas Moore, 2 August 1821: 'You may probably have seen all sorts of attacks upon me in some gazettes in England some months ago. I only saw them, by Murray's ... George Gordon Lord Byron A. A. Watts series of five articles alleging plagiarism in Byr... Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 7 August 1821: 'I have just been turning over the homicide review of J. Keats ...' George Gordon Lord Byron John Wilson Croker Adverse review of John Keats, Endymion Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 23 August 1821, on sources for descriptions in Don Juan Canto III: 'much of the description of the furniture in Canto 3d. is taken from Tully's Trip... George Gordon Lord Byron Richard Tully Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at the Court o... Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to Octavius Gilchrist, 5 September 1821, acknowledges receipt and reading of three pamphlets (by Gilchrist) relating to Bowles-Pope controversy. George Gordon Lord Byron Octavius Gilchrist pamphlets Print : Pamphlet1500-1599 'then hard Mr Rhodes read, and so went to bed' Richard Rhodes [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1700-1799 Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1821, having requested that he send a Bible: 'I am a great reader and admirer of those books -- and had read them through and through befo... George Gordon Lord Byron Books of Old Testament Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 August 1822: 'I have not seen the thing you mention [John Watkins, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Honourable Lord Byron] ... nor h... George Gordon Lord Byron Advertisement for [John Watkins], Memoirs of the L... Print : AdvertisementByron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on R. B. Sheridan, 15 October 1821: 'One day I saw him take up his own "Monody on Garrick". -- He lighted ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan Richard Brinsley Sheridan Monody on Garrick Unknown 1800-1849 Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 15 October 1821: 'At the Opposition Meeting of the peers in 1812 at Lord Grenville's -- when Ld. Grey and he re... Charles 2nd Earl Grey unknown Correspondence re Francis Rawdon Hastings, second ... Manuscript : LetterUnknown1800-1849 Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 15 October 1821: 'At the Opposition Meeting of the peers in 1812 at Lord Grenville's -- when Ld. Grey and he re... William Wyndham Lord Grenville unknown Correspondence re Francis Rawdon Hastings, second ... Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on reading 'reviews', 15 October 1821: ' ... the first I ever read was in 1806-07.' George Gordon Lord Byron unknown [reviews] Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : Letter1700-1799 Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on Harrow master Dr. Drury: 'My first Harrow verses (that is English as exercises) a translation of a Chorus fr... George Gordon Lord Byron Aeschylus Prometheus Bound Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 5 November 1821: 'I have lately been reading Fielding over again.' George Gordon Lord Byron Henry Fielding unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 16 November 1821, on literary ambitions of an Irish visitor, John Taaffe: 'I read a letter of yours to him yesterday, and he begs me to write to yo... George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Moore [letter] Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1821, regarding his MS Memoirs: 'Is there anything in the M.S.S. that could be personally obnoxious to himself [John Cam Hobhouse]? ...... Douglas Kinnaird George Gordon Lord Byron Memoirs Manuscript : Unknown1500-1599 'then, after dinner, I walked, and hard Mr Rhodes Read' Richard Rhodes [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1821: 'By extracts in the English papers in your holy Ally -- Galignani's messenger -- I perceive that the "two greatest examples of huma... George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's Messenger Print : NewspaperByron to Bryan Waller Procter, 1822, regarding Procter's drama Mirandola: ' ... "Mirandola" [was] not announced till the winter following [summer 1820]. The first time I ... George Gordon Lord Byron advertisement for "Mirandola" Print : Advertisement, Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to the editor of The Courier, 5 February 1822: 'Sir / -- I have read in your Journal some remarks of Mr. Southey ... which he is pleased to entitle a reply to "a no... George Gordon Lord Byron Robert Southey letter Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 8 February 1822: 'Attacks upon me were to be expected [following publication of his Biblical drama Cain] -- but I perceive one upon you in the paper... George Gordon Lord Byron Oxoniensis [pseud.] Remonstrance against Cain Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 1 March 1822: 'In the impartial Galignani I perceive an extract from Blackwood's Magazine, in which it is said that there are people who have disco... George Gordon Lord Byron article originally appearing in Blackwood's Edinbu... Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 26 May 1822, giving directions for burial of his daughter Allegra at Harrow Church: 'Near the door -- on the left as you enter -- there is a monumen... George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript : epitaph1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 June 1822: 'I have read the recent article of Jeffrey in a faithful transcription of the impartial Galignani.' George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Jeffrey unknown Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to the Rev Thomas Hall, 14 August 1822: 'I have observed in Galignani's paper lists of the Subscribers and Subscriptions for the Irish poor from Florence, but not f... George Gordon Lord Byron Lists of subscribers to Irish poor relief funds Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 25 October 1822, sending back unread Quarterly Review (having decided to read no more reviews): '[Galignani] ... has forwarded a copy of at least on... George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's Messenger Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1822, on his recent illness (painfully and ineffectually treated by a local doctor): 'At last I seized Thompson's book of prescriptions --... George Gordon Lord Byron Thompson book of prescriptions Print : Book1700-1799 Byron to Augusta Leigh, 12 December 1822, on the inspiration for his play Werner: 'The Story "the German's tale" [in Sophia and Harriet Lee's Canterbury Tales] from which... George Gordon Lord Byron Harriet Lee The German's Tale Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 5 April 1823: 'I return the C[ount] D'O[rsay]'s journal which is a very extraordinary production ... I know or knew personally most of t... George Gordon Lord Byron Count D'Orsay Journal Manuscript : Unknown1500-1599 'M. Rhodes read a sarmon of the Reuel: and so went to bed' Margaret Rhodes [unknown] [sermon - Revelation] Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Madame Sergent-Marceau, 5 May 1823 (translated from Italian): 'no present you might give me would be more welcome than the short work in which the actions of you... George Gordon Lord Byron Antoine Francois Sergent-Marceau Notices Historiques sur le General Marceau Print : Book1700-1799 Byron to the Countess of Blessington, on Benjamin Constant's Adolphe, 6 May 1823: 'The first time I ever read it ... was at the desire of Madame de Stael ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Benjamin Constant Adolphe Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", etc., the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, and the brochure... George Gordon Lord Byron Henri Beyle Rome Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", etc., the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, and the brochure... George Gordon Lord Byron Henri Beyle Life of Haydn Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", etc., the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, and the brochure... George Gordon Lord Byron Henri Beyle Life of Mozart Print : Book
