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[BYRON, George Gordon Byron, Baron]. The siege of corinth. A poem. Parisina. A poem.

London. Printed for John Murray, 1816. Second edition.
8vo. [2], 89pp, [3]. Without collective half-title. Later marbled paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Lightly rubbed, marked, and dulled. Blind-stamps of Nottingham Public Libraries to upper board and title page.
The second edition of two narrative poems by Lord Byron, with the first, 'The Siege of Corinth', being inspired by the 1715 Ottoman massacre of the Venetian Garrison holding the Acrocorinth - Byron retells the historical narrative in true Romantic fashion through the eyes of a Venetian renegade and the maiden daughter of the Venetian governor. 'Parisina', the second poem within, is taken from a story retold by Edward Gibbon in his Miscellaneous Works (1796), in which a duke of Ferrera condemns his wife, Parisina for an incestuous affair with his bastard son. Byron's version spares Parisina, instead dooming her to madness alongside her tormented husband.
£ 75.00 Antiquates Ref: 32986