The Dream (Byron poem)

The Dream is a poem written by Lord Byron in 1816. It has been described as expressing "central Romantic beliefs about dreams".[1] It also describes the view from the Misk Hills, close to Byron's ancestral home in Newstead, Nottinghamshire.[2] Mary Chaworth of Annesley Hall, a distant relation for whom Byron had a boyhood passion, is the "Maid" of the poem.[3]

Charles Lock Eastlake's 1827 painting Lord Byron's Dream inspired by the poem.
Not to be confused with The Dream (John Donne poem).

Notes
  1. Christopher John Murray (13 May 2013). Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850. Routledge. p. 294. ISBN 1-135-45579-1.
  2. Kathryn Walchester (1 December 2014). Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway. Anthem Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-1-78308-365-7.
  3. s:The Dream (Byron)
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