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Among the numerous paradoxes characteristic of Byron’s personality, of his work and posthumous reputation, scholars have long pointed out the conspicuous difference between his significance in England and his stature in other European countries as well as in America. Britain’s attitude was, after a few years of extravagant admiration, generally hostile, to be succeeded only at the close of the century by serious study which, however, resulted in only a very moderate appreciation of his poetic gift. Continental Europe and America were far more constant in their high regard for the poet.
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M. P. Alekseyev, “Avtografy Bayrona v SSRR”, Literaturnoe Nasledstvo (Moscow, 1952) vol. 58, pp. 975–6. This study also includes information that Russian interest in Byron lasted well up to the middle of the nineteenth century, when the poet’s manuscripts were collected by his admirers. Some of Byron’s autographs derived from Russian collections (a rough copy of the Hebrew Melody “A Spirit Stood Before Me”, a letter addressed to Mr Trevannion dated Milan, 15 October 1816) were here published for the first time. The authenticity of these autographs was questioned in the English press (The Times, 15 July 1955, and 8, 9,19 May 1958) but then established beyond the shadow of a doubt.
Byron’s letter to Trevannion was reproduced by Sir Gavin de Beer (The Times Literary Supplement, 16 May 1958), who used the autograph preserved by the Public Library of Leningrad but unfortunately did not refer to its previous publication by Professor Alekseyev.
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See V. I. Maslov, Literaturnaya deyatel’ nost’ K. F. Ryleeva (Kiev, 1912).
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Diakonova, N., Vacuro, V. (1981). Byron and Russia. In: Trueblood, P.G. (eds) Byron’s Political and Cultural Influence in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05588-3_9
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