" It was
published
in 1817.
Byron
Lines 67-82 first published, _Letters_, 1900, iv. 161. ]
FOOTNOTES:
[75] ["By the way," writes Murray, Aug. 5, 1817 (_Memoir, etc. _, i.
386), "Polidori has sent me his tragedy! Do me the kindness to send by
return of post a _delicate_ declension of it, which I engage faithfully
to copy. "
"I never," said Byron, "was much more disgusted with any human
production than with the eternal nonsense, and _tracasseries_, and
emptiness, and ill-humour, and vanity of this young person; but he has
some talent, and is a man of honour, and has dispositions of amendment.
Therefore use your interest for him, for he is improved and improvable;"
and, in a letter to Murray, Aug. 21, 1817, "You want a 'civil and
delicate declension' for the medical tragedy? Take it. "--For J. W.
Polidori (1795-1821), see _Letters_, 1899, iii, 284 _note_ I. ]
[76] [Maturin's second tragedy, _Manuel_, produced at Drury Lane, March
8, 1817, with Kean as "Manuel Count Valdis, failed, and after five
nights was withdrawn.
" It was published in 1817. "It is," says Byron
(letter to Murray, June 14, 1817), "the absurd work of a clever
man. "--_Letters_, 1900, iv. 134, and _note_ I. ]
[77] [Sotheby published, in 1814, _Five Tragedies_, viz. "The Confession,"
"Orestes," "Ivan," "The Death of Darnley," and "Zamorin and Zama. "]
[78] [_Ina, A Tragedy_, by Mrs. Wilmot [Barberina Ogle (1768-1854),
daughter of Sir Chaloner Ogle], afterwards Lady Dacre, was produced at
Drury Lane, April 22, 1815. Her "tragedy," writes Byron to Moore, April
23, 1815, "was last night damned. " See _Letters_, 1898, ii. 332, _note_
3, etc. ; _ibid. _, 1899, iii. 195, _note_ I. ]
[79] [George Hammond (1763-1853) was a distinguished diplomatist, who
twice (1795-1806 and 1807-1809) held the office of Under-secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs. He is associated with the foundation of the
_Anti-Jacobin_ and the _Quarterly Review_.
