ODE ON THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON; Lines on the Neapolitan Revolution; and other poems.
Published by London: published by Gossling and Egley New Bond Street, 1822
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8vo, pp. 56; with errata slip tipped in before first poem; a fine and most attractive copy in contemporary full purple calf, covers with broad gilt border, covers panelled in blind with centre of a basket-weave pattern; spine gilt with red morocco label; marbled endpapers and edges. First and only edition: the first book by Henry Bulwer (1801-72), elder brother of the novelist Edward Bulwer, to whom this book is dedicated. Henry later became a leading British diplomat, in Washington and Constantinople, and was raised to the peerage the year before he died; but in his youth he was a romantic who craved adventure. The poems in this slim volume reflect his early continental experiences, when he spent time in Paris in early 1822; they also reflect his reading of Byron. Two years later, inspired by Byron's commitment to the cause of Greek independence, he was to become closely involved in the London Greek Committee and travelled out to the Ionian Islands to distribute the enormous sums that had been raised for the Greek cause. Byron died in April 1824, and the expedition, which arrived in October, ended in failure with malaria striking all the leading members of the party. The collection's title poem praises Napoleon for his martial achievements, his conquering spirit and the glory he has won for France, and in rather plodding verse laments the nastier side of his nature: Thy rule is o'er, thy race is run; Thy deeds, dark spirit, are undone. Thou, made to make mankind thy prey, Art the vile worms' vile food, and they, The works by thy proud passions wrought, Have vanish'd with thee - and are nought. (p. 13) Provenance. Contemporary armorial bookplate of William Emerson.…
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- Title
- ODE ON THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON; Lines on the Neapolitan Revolution; and other poems.
- Author
- [BULWER, Henry Lytton Earle, later Lord Dalling and Bulwer.]
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- London: published by Gossling and Egley New Bond Street
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- 1822
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- Hardcover
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Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB
Henley-on-Thames, Oxon, United Kingdom
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