"Manfred" was written just after the dissolution of Lord Byron's marriage and his self-imposed exile from Britain. The poem contains supernatural elements, popular during the Romantic era (Byron called it his "metaphysical drama") and concerns Manfred's forbidden relationship with Astarte and his subsequent guilt for an "unmentionable offense." Written so closely on the heels of Byron's rumored affair with his half-sister, many critics of the poem considered it to be a confessional.
""Manfred" was written just after the dissolution of Lord Byron's marriage and his self-imposed exile from Britain. The poem contains supernatural elements, popular during the Romantic era (Byron called it his "metaphysical drama") and concerns Manfred's forbidden relationship with Astarte and his subsequent guilt for an "unmentionable offense." Written so closely on the heels of Byron's rumored affair with his half-sister, many critics of the poem considered it to be a confessional."@en
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