Portugal

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Portugal

Subject

The correspondence Byron wrote and some of which he received during the tour.

Description

The first country Byron and Hobhouse visit during the Mediterranean Tour (7-17 July 1809). "In CHP I.201-377 the beauties of Lisbon, Cintra and 'this delicious land' (208) are praised and contrasted with the allegedly ignoble, cowardly and violent nature of the Portuguese." Garrett, Martin. The Palgrave Dictionary of Byron. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010, 228.

Creator

Paul M Curtis

Source

Byron to Francis Hodgson, August 6th 1809:
Byron, George Gordon, Lord. Byron’s Letters and Journals. Ed. Leslie A. Marchand. 13 vols. London: John Murray 1973–94.
Peter S Cochran's website: https://petercochran.wordpress.com/byron-2/byron/
(Source: Ms. not found; text from Moore’s Life I 194-6; LJ I 234-6; BLJ I 215-16)

Publisher

The Byron Online Project: http://byrononlineproject.com

Date

13 April 2014

Contributor

Paul M Curtis

Rights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License.

Relation

David Radcliffe's "Lord Byron and his Times:"
http://www.lordbyron.org/

Language

English

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Place

Coverage

English Romanticism, George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron, 1788-1824, 1809-1811

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Portugal

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Paul M Curtis, “Portugal,” ByronOnlineProject, accessed April 19, 2024, https://byrononlineproject.com/items/show/307.

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