Note 356 — Chapter VIII · “DON JUAN”

Byron’s influence upon the literature of the nineteenth century may be studied in Otto Weddigen’s treatise Lord Byron’s Einfluss auf die Europaischen Litteraturen der Neuzeit and in Richard Ackermann’s Lord Byron (pp. 158–182). Collins numbers among his disciples in Germany, Wilhelm Mueller, Heine, Von Platen, Adalbert Chamisso, Karl Lebrecht, Immermann, and Christian Grabbe; among his French imitators, Lamartine, Hugo, de la Vigne, and de Musset; among his followers in Russia, Poushkin and Lermontoff. To these should be added Giovanni Berchet in Italy, and José de Espronceda in Spain. No other English poet, except Shakspere, has impressed his personality so strongly upon foreign countries.