Mazeppa (Lord Byron)
Mazeppa is a dramatic poem in 20 songs by Lord Byron , composed between April 1817 and September 1818. It was published in 1819 by the publisher John Murray in London .
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The poem deals with the heard of Voltaire episode reported in 1731 in the life of Ukrainian Kosakenhetmans Ivan Mazepa (1839-1709), in this as Page of the Polish king Johann II. Kasimir after an affair with the wife of a Polish magnate naked from this was tied up on the back of a wild horse and chased away, which led to the horse's death and was barely survived by Mazeppa, who rescued the Cossacks, whose leader he later became. In the framework of the plot, Mazeppa tells this event to the wounded Swedish King Charles XII. on the run after the battle of Poltava at a night camp in the forest, but the king falls asleep while telling the story.
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Translations
- Lord Byron: the prisoner of Chillon. A piece of fantasy. Mazeppa. Freely translated by Adolf Seubert. Leipzig: Philipp Reclam jun., No year (before 1898)
- George Gordon Noël Byron: Seals. Second ribbon. Corsair. Mazeppa. Beppo, translated by Wilhelm Schäffer. Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut 1870. Digitized in Projekt Gutenberg-DE, available at https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/byron/dichtun2/chap002.html .