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| | The Literary Gothic | "Manfred" | Lord Byron |
 | | Byron also heard Goethe's Faust about this time, and "Manfred" may also owe something to Matthew Lewis, author of The Monk, who visited Byron a month or two before "Manfred" was begun. |
 | | The scene of the Drama is amongst the Higher Alps -- partly in the Castle of Manfred, and partly in the Mountains. |
 | | Count Manfred was, as now, within his tower,-- How occupied, we knew not, but with him The sole companion of his wanderings And watchings-- her, whom of all earthly things That lived, the only thing he seem'd to love,-- As he, indeed, by blood was bound to do, The Lady Astarte, his-- Hush! |
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