Letters and Journals of Lord Byron
Lord Byron to John Murray, 17 October 1820
“Ravenna, 8bre 17°, 1820.
“Enclosed is the Dedication of Marino Faliero to Goëthe. Query,—is his title Baron or not? I think yes. Let me know your opinion, and so forth.
“P.S. Let me know what Mr.
Hobhouse and you have decided about the two prose letters and their publication.
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I enclose you an Italian abstract of the German translator of
Manfred’s Appendix, in which
you will perceive quoted what Goëthe says of
the whole body of English poetry (and not of me in
particular). On this the Dedication is founded, as you will perceive, though I had
thought of it before, for I look upon him as a great man.”
Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832)
German poet, playwright, and novelist; author of
The Sorrows of Young
Werther (1774) and
Faust (1808, 1832).
John Cam Hobhouse, baron Broughton (1786-1869)
Founder of the Cambridge Whig Club; traveled with Byron in the orient, radical MP for
Westminster (1820); Byron's executor; after a long career in politics published
Some Account of a Long Life (1865) later augmented as
Recollections of a Long Life, 6 vols (1909-1911).
John Murray II (1778-1843)
The second John Murray began the
Quarterly Review in 1809 and
published works by Scott, Byron, Austen, Crabbe, and other literary notables.
