Jan. Feb.

Pacha.-26. Returns to Joannini.-31. Begins the first canto of "Childe Harold."

3. Proceeds by sea to Prevesa.-10. Driven on the coast of Suli.-12. Writes, in passing the Ambracian gulf, "Through cloudless skies, in silvery sheen."13. Sails down the gulf of Arta.-14. Reaches Utraikey.-15. Traverses Acarnania.-21. Reaches Missolonghi. And, 25. Patras.

4. Leaves Patras.-14. Passes across the gulf of Lepanto -18. Visits Mount Parnassus, Castri, and Delphi.-22. Thebes.-25. Arrives at Athens.

1810-(ætat. 22.)

Spends ten weeks in visiting the monuments of Athens; making occasional excursions to several parts of Attica.-Writes, "The spell is broke, the charm is flown!"-" Lines in the Travellers' Book at Orchomenus."-And Maid of Athens, ere we part." March 5. Leaves Athens for Smyrna.-7. Visits the ruins of Ephesus.-2. Concludes, at Smyrna, the second canto of "Childe Harold."

April 11. Leaves Smyrna for Constantinople.-Visits the

Troad.

May 9. Writes "Lines after swimming from Sestos to
Abydos."-14. Arrives at Constantinople.
June. Makes an Excursion through the Bosphorus to the
Black Sea and Cyanean Symplegades.

July

14 Departs from Constantinople.-19. Reaches Athens. -Visits Corinth.

Ang. Makes a tour of the Morea, and visits Velay Pacha.-Returns to Athens.

Oct.

Jan.

See Fac Similes,

Feb.

Begins an epic, to be entitled "Bosworth Field."—And writes part of a novel.

1808-(20.)

Jan. Passes his time between the dissipations of Cambridge Ang. 1 and London.

Sept. Takes up his residence at Newstead.-Forms the design of visiting India.-Engaged in preparing "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" for the press. 1809-(21.)

1811-(23.)

Takes up his residence at the Franciscan Convent, Athens.-Writes "Dear object of defeated care!" Writes "Sons of the Greeks, arise!"--"I enter thy garden of roses."--And "Remarks on the Romaic or modern Greek Language."

March 12. Writes "Hints from Horace."-17. "The Curse of Minerva."--And Lines on Parting."

Jan.

March 13. Takes his seat in the House of Lords.

16. Publishes " English Bards and Scotch Review

ers."

Jan.

May. Engaged in preparing a second edition of "English Bards" for the press.

Mr. Hobhouse.

30. Writes, on board the Lisbon packet, "Huzza! Hodgson, we are going!"

Mar.

July 2 Sails from Falmouth.

Death of his Mother.

Writes Epistle to a Friend, "Oh! banish caresuch ever be."-And Stanzas to Thyrza, "Without a stone to mark the spot.”

6. Writes "Away, away, ye notes of wo!"

1812-(24.)

Writes "One struggle more, and I am free!"-"When time, or soon or late, shall bring."-" And thou art dead, as young as fair."

27. Makes his first Speech in the House of Lords.29. Publishes the first two cantos of "Childe Harold."

Commits a new edition of "English Bards," &c., to the flames.-Writes "If sometimes in the haunts of men."-" On a Cornelian Heart which was broken." "Lines to a Lady weeping."--And "The Chain I gave!"

19. Writes "Lines on a blank leaf of The Pleasures of Memory." Writes "Address on the Opening of Drury Lane The

atre."

Writes "The Waltz; an Apostrophic Hymn."--And, "A Parenthetical Address by Dr. Plagiary." Writes "Address to Time."And, "Thou art not false, but thou art fickle!"

2. Marries Miss Milbanke. See Fac Similes, No. III. Writes "There be none of Beauty's Daughters." Writes "Lines on Napoleon Bonaparte's Escape from Elba."

Oct. Νον.

16. Begins the fifth canto of "Don Juan."

20. Finishes the fifth canto of "Don Juan."-And writes "The Blues; a Literary Eclogue."

1821-(33.)

13. Begins "Sardanapalus."

7. Writes "Letter to John Murray, Esq., on Bowles's Strictures upon Pope."

25. Writes Second Letter to John Murray, Esq.," &c.

17. Finishes "Sardanapalus."

11. Begins "The Two Foscari."

10. Finishes "The Two Foscari."-16. Begins "Cain; a Mystery."

9. Finishes "Cain."-Writes "Vision of Judgment." Writes "Heaven and Earth; a Mystery."

Removes to Pisa.-18. Begins Werner." And "The Deformed Transformed."

April. 16. Writes "When all around grew drear and dark."— 25. Takes a last leave of his native country.-Proceeds, through Flanders and by the Rhine, to Switzerland.

May. Begins the third canto of "Childe Harold."
June. Writes "The Prisoner of Chillon" at Ouchy, near
Lausanne.-Takes up his abode at the Campagne
Diodati, near Geneva.

July. Finishes the third canto of "Childe Harold."-Writes
"Monody on the Death of Sheridan."-Stanzas to
Augusta, "Though the Day of my Destiny."-"The
Dream." "Darkness." "Churchill's Grave."
"Prometheus."—" Could I remount."-Epistle to Au-
gusta, "My Sister, my sweet Sister."-And, "Sonnet
to Lake Leman."

Writes "The Island."-And more cantos of "Don Juan."

April.

Turns his views towards Greece.

May.

Receives a communication from the Greek Committee sitting in London.

July

Aug.

Dec.

Jan.

14. Sails for Greece.

Reaches Argostoli.-Makes an excursion to Ithaca.Waits at Cephalonia the arrival of the Greek fleet.

1824-(36.)

5. Arrives at Missolonghi.-22. Writes "Lines on completing my Thirty-sixth Year."-30. Is appointed commander in-chief of an expedition against Lepanto.

15. Is seized with a convulsive fit. See Fac Similes, No. IV.

Feb.
April 9. His last illness.
April 19. His DEATH.