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2.6. "Lara"
Byron was going to return to the further fate of Conrad in the poem "Lara": the manuscript indicated that "Lara" was a continuation of "The Corsair". But this time Byron did not even bother to move the action to the East.

In the preface to the first edition of Lara, he wrote: “The reader ... will probably consider this poem as a continuation of The Corsair; they are similar in color, and, although the characters are placed in different positions, their plots are to some extent connected between himself; the face is almost the same, but the expression is different" [7]. Lara, like Conrad, does not accept the company of people, despises them, but unlike Conrad, he has a strange and mysterious influence on them. The poet makes it clear that Lara is engaged in black magic: at night in Lara's castle, a " super -earthly voice" was heard , and once he was caught in a deep faint, smitten with unearthly horror.

The poem was completed on May 14, 1814, published on August 6. Handing over the manuscript of the poem to the publisher, Byron emphasized that it should not be specified in which country the action takes place, although the hero has the Spanish name Lara.

Lara had no homeland, did not belong to any era. He was a real Byronic hero: a generous character, a heart made for love, but betrayed since childhood, a deep desire for youthful dreams and impulses, but all too clear the creation of their recklessness. Such was Lara, like Conrad, like Childe Harold, and like Byron. In some stanzas of "Lara" the image of the author himself stood out so clearly, with such contemptuous resemblance, that many were amazed.