Lord Byron dogs into the water, each with an arm in the ship Captain’s new scarlet waistcoat, to the annoyance of the Captain and the amusement of the crew. Byron had a great love of animals, most notably for a Newfoundland dog named Boatswain. When the animal contracted rabies, Byron nursed him, albeit unsuccessfully, without any thought or fear of becoming bitten and infected. Although deep in debt at the time, Byron commissioned an impressive marble funerary monument for Boatswain at Newstead Abbey, larger than his own, and the only building work which he ever carried out on his estate. In his
Romantic literature in English of Wales and its past had a far-reaching effect on the way in which the Welsh envisaged their own national identity during the nineteenth century". (See: Damian Walford Davies and Lynda Pratt, eds., "Wales and the Romantic Imagination" (University of Wales Press, 2007), James Prothero. "Wordsworth and Welsh Romanticism". Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. and Shawna Lichtenwalner, "Claiming Cambria: Invoking the Welsh in the Romantic Era" (University of Delaware Press, 2008). James Macpherson was the first Scottish poet to gain an international reputation. Claiming to have found poetry written by the ancient bard Ossian, he published "translations" that acquired international