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Lines on the Gallic Nation, on their desertion of Napoleon

Title: Lines on the Gallic Nation, on their desertion of Napoleon : [manuscript copy], ca. 1814?

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Mixed material	Permit needed	Pforz MS	Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925

Description

4 pages (double sheet); 33 cm (folio)

Summary

· Manuscript poem copied in the hand of "Miss Hazlet" [possibly Margaret Hazlitt (1770-1841)]. Nine ten-line stanzas; begins, "Oh! shame to thee, land of the Gaul, / Oh! shame to thy children and thee ...." Published in various 19th century sources under the title, "Ode," and ascribed to Lord Byron, it is not in fact by Byron (see J. McGann's edition of Byron's complete works, volume VII, page 111). Copy date unknown; the watermark is 1814. On page 4 of the folded double sheet is an authentication note in the hand of Thomas Hardy, the radical bootmaker and founder of the London Corresponding Society, which reads in full: "The above excellent lines on the Gallic Nation on their desertion of Napoleon Bonaparte, written by Lord Byron. Copied by Miss Hazlet and sent to Thomas Hardy."

Alternative Title

Oh! shame to thee, land of the Gaul
Ode

Subjects

Poems
Napoleon > I, > Emperor of the French, > 1769-1821 > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poems.

Note

Pforzheimer Manuscript (B'ANA 0768); filed under "Byronana."

Access (note)

Restricted access;

Call Number

Pforz MS

OCLC

894786914

Title

Lines on the Gallic Nation, on their desertion of Napoleon : [manuscript copy], ca. 1814?

Access

Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

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Added Author

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824, dubious author.

Hazlitt, Margaret, 1770-1841, scribe.

Hardy, Thomas, 1752-1832, annotator.

Other Title

Oh! shame to thee, land of the Gaul

Ode

Found In:

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925

Research Call Number

Pforz MS

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