012 Prisoner of Chillon

As of December 26, 2018, the page for Byron's poem "The Prisoner of Chillon" does not yet mention the fact that there is an indirect allusion to it in Henry James's Daisy Miller (Miller and our protagonist Winterbourne visit the castle of Chillon in Geneva, and Winterbourne recounts the fate of Bonivard. Further evidence is provided later in the story that he is a Byron fan -- he recites aloud to himself (people are always doing this sort of thing in old novels) several lines from "Manfred" while waiting alone in the Colosseum at night. Perhaps all this is intended as an ironic commentary on the fact that Daisy Miller will be subjected to the same kind of fanatical persecution and ostracism that Byron's prisoner undergoes.)