François-René de CHATEAUBRIAND. Manuscript with autograph ad - Lot 186

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François-René de CHATEAUBRIAND. Manuscript with autograph ad - Lot 186
François-René de CHATEAUBRIAND. Manuscript with autograph additions and corrections; 1 page in-4. Page deleted from the manuscript of his Essai sur la Littérature anglaise (1836, t. II, p. 365). In the hand of secretary Hyacinthe Pilorge, it is paginated 476; it was largely crossed out by Chateaubriand, who made autograph corrections and additions. The preserved and extensively corrected passage concerns BYRON; it is found in the Essai (tome II, p. 365) and was reused, with a few variants, in the Mémoires d'outre-tombe. The first lines evoke Dante and Virgil, with Chateaubriand adding: "Virgil was declared Lord of Mantua in 1227, and Dante was born in 1265". Then Chateaubriand mentions "the new school" of English poetry: Cowper, Crabbe, Campbell, Coleridge, Moore and Southey; as well as the novelists Lewis and Godwin, whom he had met, and Walter Scott. All this has been crossed out. Chateaubriand then turns to Lord Byron, with important additions (italics here): "Lord Byron's verses are striking imitations of the Minstrel. At the time of my exile in England, Lord Byron was living at Harrow School in a village ten miles from London: he was a child; I was young and [almost strikethrough] as unknown as he; I was to precede him by a few years in the career of letters and remain there after him".
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