Lord Byron's Attachment

Abstract

Thyrza is Lord Byron's lyrical character which has caused so much controversy upon its archetype. A poem composed on 11 October, 1811 and entitled "Thyrza" became an object of discussion and research alongside a series of poems also dedicated to Thyrza and composed later than October 1811: "Away, Away, ye Notes of Woe!", "One Struggle More, and I am Free", "Euthanasia", "And thou art Dead, as Young and Fair", "If Sometimes in the Haunts of Men".