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john keats, from the complete poems & selected letters, ‘hyperion’
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Robert Anning Bell (1893)
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Please remember that Contessa Guiccioli, Byron's lover while he was in Ravenna, wrote her Recollections of Lord Byron after he died and these are some of the chapters:
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It's that time of the year again, my friends. Happy Valentine's Day!
Happy Valentine's Day everyone! [×]
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“Twelve o'clock, really began to talk ghostly. L[ord] B[yron] repeated some verses of Coleridge's Christabel, of the witch’s breast; when silence ensued, and Shelley, suddenly shrieking and putting his hands to his head, ran out of the room with a candle. Threw water in his face, and after gave him ether. He was looking at Mrs. S[helley], and suddenly thought of a woman he had heard of who had eyes instead of nipples, which, taking hold of his mind, horrified him.”
— John Polidori, from his journal (June 18, 1816)
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Gothic (1986)
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- Blackwood’s magazine. v.69 1851.
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Lord Byron, from “Manfred”
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— Ada Limón, from “The Unspoken.”
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“a lock of lord byron’s hair, dark brown with some white strands-
cut from his head after his death at missolonghi, coiled and tied with a pink ribbon, with an accompanying wrapper inscribed in the hand of byron’s intimate friend john cam hobhouse (“a lock of hair cut from the head of lord byron after his death by dr. bruno”), and with a later envelope recording that the lock was later presented “by miss leigh to miss marianne gidely”
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