The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry

Note 76 — JEUX D'ESPRIT AND MINOR POEMS, 1798-1824.

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[Maturin's second tragedy, Manuel, produced at Drury Lane, March 8, 1817, with Kean as "Manuel Count Valdis, failed, and after five nights was withdrawn." It was published in 1817. "It is," says Byron (letter to Murray, June 14, 1817), "the absurd work of a clever man."—Letters, 1900, iv. 134, and note I.]

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