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Bibliography: "The Prisoner of Chillon" by Byron, George Gordon
- Title
- "The Prisoner of Chillon"
- Author
- Byron, George Gordon
- Date
- Genre
- poetry
- Note Source
- O Pioneers! Part V, Chap. 2; Collected Short Fiction 1892-1912 438
- Note Relating to Cather
In O Pioneers!, Alexandra Bergson recalls "a poem she had liked in her schooldays after leaving Frank Shabata at the prison: 'Henceforth the world will only be/A wider prison-house to me.'" Lines 322-3 of the poem actually read: "And the whole earth would henceforth be/A wider prison unto me."
In Cather's story "A Resurrection," Martin Dempster asks Marjorie Pierson to recite the last four lines of "The Prisoner of Chillon."
