John Walsh follows Lord Byron’s “trail to the Jungfrau.”
Byron's Alpine journal is a record of travel rather than mystic urgings, but its legacy was obvious. Filled with a new Wordsworthian passion for nature, and its power to affect the human mind, he wrote Manfred, a three-act ‘dramatic poem’ about a reclusive demi-god and magician who lives alone on a mountain, maddened by guilt and longing extinction; instead he is tormented by the spirits of the universe who offer him everything but the death he desires. – from “In the Swiss Footsteps of Byron,” by John Walsh, The Independent