- Creator
- Burgen, John W
- Call number
- Pforz MS
- Physical description
- 1 item
- Preferred Citation
- John W. Burgen manuscript material : 1 item, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
- Access to materials
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John W. Burgen, of London. Burgen composed a poem in tribute to Lord Byron and inscribed it in the visitor's album at Byron's tomb in the parish church at Hucknall, Nottinghamshire on October 1, 1832. In 1834 the contents of the album were published under the title Byroniana, edited by J. M. Langford. Poem (transcript), "Stanzas written in the Book at Hucknall -- the burial place of Lord Byron" : [composed 1 Oct 1832; transcription date unknown; w/m = 1830] : (B'ANA 0315) : begins, "Not in that Palace, where the dead repose / in splendid holiness -- where Time hath spread ..." Formerly among the papers of Lord Byron's "last attachment," the Countess Teresa Guiccioli. Guiccioli visited Newstead and Hucknall Torkard in December 1832; this item was perhaps copied for her on that occasion.
Key terms
Names
- Burgen, John W
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
- Guiccioli, Teresa, contessa di, 1800-1873 (Former owner)
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Location
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His CircleStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319