The Dream (Byron poem)

The Dream is a poem written by Lord Byron in 1816. It has been described as expressing "central Romantic beliefs about dreams".[1] It also describes the view from the Misk Hills, close to Byron's ancestral home in Newstead, Nottinghamshire.[2] Mary Chaworth of Annesley Hall, a distant relation for whom Byron had a boyhood passion, is the "Maid" of the poem.[3]

Charles Lock Eastlake's 1827 painting Lord Byron's Dream inspired by the poem.

Notes

  1. Christopher John Murray (13 May 2013). Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850. Routledge. p. 294. ISBN 1-135-45579-1.
  2. Kathryn Walchester (1 December 2014). Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway. Anthem Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-1-78308-365-7.
  3. s:The Dream (Byron)


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