WorkGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron

“To the Countess of Blessington”

InferredHeaded “To the Countess of B. Written at Genoa. 1833’’ in the notebook; this is Byron’s ‘To the Countess of Blessington’ (1823), written at Genoa when Byron met Margaret Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, in April–June 1823. The poem references Sir Thomas Lawrence’s portrait of the Countess (‘What Lawrence has painted so well’). Author not given in the notebook but the poem is explicitly titled with the dedicatee.

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1823To the Countess of BlessingtonDemonstrated
“To the Countess of B. Written at Genoa. 1833. 'You have asked for a verse, the request / In a rhymer 'twere strange to deny...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · Written at Genoa. 1833 [sic, poem actually composed 1823]
Substantial multi-line quoted passage from Byron's poem.

When Fuller engaged with this work

No datable encounters with Byron, George Gordon, Lord have been catalogued yet.

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p27–29

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“You have asked for a verse, the request / In a rhymer ‘twere strange to deny. / But my Hippocrene was but my breast. / And my feeling (its fountain) are dry.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Extracts Only." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (88); Box 6 (88).

Inferred Headed “To the Countess of B. Written at Genoa. 1833’’ in the notebook; this is Byron’s ‘“To the Countess of Blessington”’ (1823), written at Genoa when Byron met Margaret Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, in April–June 1823. The poem references Sir Thomas Lawrence’s portrait of the Countess (‘What Lawrence has painted so well’). Author not given in the notebook but the poem is explicitly titled with the dedicatee.