A new look at the original Romantic heartthrob, Lord Byron
On April 19, 1824, Lord Byron died at Missolonghi ... is a very poetical circumstance.” In Byron’s dramatic poem, “Manfred,” ...
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Tchaikovsky’s ‘Forgotten’ Symphony
Tchaikovsky’s view of his Manfred Symphony was probably coloured by his own ambiguous relationship with Byron’s poem and its hero whose sense of guilt over his incestuous love for his sister ...