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BYRON, Lord George
The Island, or Christian and his Comrades.
John Hunt London, 1823. Octavo, with the half-title but lacking the 2-pp. advertisement sometimes seen; a beautiful copy in 19th-century polished tan calf gilt by Root & Son. First edition: "Awake, bold Bligh! the foe is at the gate!".
Famous for Byron's use of the myth of the Noble Savage, here Fletcher Christian is initially vilified for his 'reign of rage and fear', but develops into a doomed Byronic hero. Byron's sources for the work are interesting. He relied not only on Bligh's voyage account (which Byron here excerpted and printed in a thirteen-page appendix) but on an unacknowledged reading of Edward Christian's appendix to the Minutes of the Court-Martial held at Portsmouth (James C. McKusick, 'The Politics of Language in Byron's 'The Island'', ELH, 1992).
Particularly interesting is the second canto, Byron's own rendering of a prose translation of a song from the Tongan islanders, which he derived from William Mariner's Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, first published in 1817, and one of the major sources of information on pre-Christian Tonga. Mariner was an Englishman who lived in the Tonga Islands from 1806 to 1810, after his ship was seized by the islanders (see catalogue no. XXX).
Ferguson recorded a single copy of this work (National Library of Australia).
Ferguson, 897; Kroepelien, 149; O'Reilly-Reitman, 9825; Spence, 'Bligh', p.14; Wise, 'A Bibliography of Byron', II, pp. 42-3.
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