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"Epitaph to a Dog" (also sometimes referred to as "Inscription on the Monument to a Newfoundland Dog") is a poem by the British poet Lord Byron. It was written in 1808 in honour of his Landseer dog , Boatswain, who had just died of rabies .
First edition title page. The Corsair (1814) is a long tale in verse written by Lord Byron (see 1814 in poetry) and published by John Murray in London. It was extremely popular, selling ten thousand copies on its first day of sale, and was influential throughout the following century, inspiring operas, music and ballet. [1]
The 26‐line poem "Epitaph to a Dog" has become one of his best-known works. But a draft of an 1830 letter by Hobhouse shows him to be the author; Byron decided to use Hobhouse's lengthy epitaph instead of his own, which read: "To mark a friend's remains these stones arise/I never knew but one – and here he lies."
A marble epitaph to a hunting dog called Margarita (pearl) from Gaul was put up at Rome in the first or second century AD. [15] This highly unusual inscription uses Virgilian language and says she used to lie in her master and mistress' laps and rest on a blanket rather than have to endure heavy harnesses or beatings. [ 15 ]
Lord Byron had a Newfoundland dog named Boatswain. [14] Byron wrote the famous poem " Epitaph to a Dog " and had a monument made for him at Newstead Abbey . [ 14 ] The 1907 naval gothic novel The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" by William Hope Hodgson features the character of the ship's “bo'sun” as an important member of the crew and a personal ...
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Waits opened his most popular album, Rain Dogs, with an allusion to Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland: ... Epitaph Records was founded by Bad Religion’s Brett Gurewitz in 1980, and helped ...
Epitaph on the base of the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument, Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois. An epitaph (from Ancient Greek ἐπιτάφιος (epitáphios) 'a funeral oration'; from ἐπι-(epi-) 'at, over' and τάφος (táphos) 'tomb') [1] [2] is a short text honoring a deceased person. Strictly speaking, it refers to text that is ...