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The Prisoner of Chillon

The Prisoner of Chillon

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Number of Chapters: 22

Length: 01 hour and 40 minutes

Language: English

Lord Byron visited the Castle of Chillon on Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1816 and was intrigued by the legend of Francis Bonnivard who was said to have been imprisoned there in medieval times. The title poem of this collection was written in response to that visit.

Originally published in 1816 this collection was extended after Byron's death. The final poem was written on his 36th birthday, just 3 months before he died. - Summary by Alan Mapstone

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The Prisoner of Chillon (Alan Mapstone)
Sonnet on Chillon (Alan Mapstone)
Fare Thee Well (Alan Mapstone)
She Walks in Beauty (Larry Wilson)
The Destruction of Sennacherib (Larry Wilson)
Jephthah's Daughter (Larry Wilson)
On a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill (Alan Mapstone)
Maid of Athens, ere we part (czandra)
Stanzas to Augusta (Stefan Von Blon)
Epistle to Augusta (Alan Mapstone)
When we two parted (Bruce Kachuk)
Stanzas for Music (George Banfield)
The Dream (George Banfield)
To Thomas Moore (Stacey Malcolm)
So, we'll go no more a-roving (Sagarika)
On the Bust of Helen by Canova (Bruce Kachuk)
A very mournful ballad on the Siege and Conquest of Alhama (Alan Mapstone)
Stanzas: "Could love for ever" (czandra)
Darkness (Sheridan Alistair)
Prometheus (Alan Mapstone)
Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa (Alan Mapstone)
On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year (Alan Mapstone)
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