Essentially a work of biography and biographical criticism,
Mégroz's volume emphasizes the intersections of DGR's life and
work. As the author puts it in his introduction, “his life
and works are reflections of each other, and both are reflections of an
extraordinarily fixed personality.
” (vii).
Mégroz prints two stanzas of DGR's early poem on Napoleon,
entitled
The End of It”
The Ashley Library
Annotated Bibliography
It was inexact to describe this piece, which Polidori printed in 1843, as a
“first attempt
”, for
what I may call my first poem (after still more childish things) I believe, and enclose it you for a lark. Of course it is on nothing less than Napoleon at Waterloo!”
The End Of It”
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