Today's session was an introduction to our next novel, Henry James' Daisy Miller. As the opening pages allude to the characters' visit to the famed Castle of Chillon , we are beginning our study of the novel by first examining Lord Byron's narrative poem,"The Prisoner of Chillon" to enable us to later analyze the relevance of this allusion to the theme of the novel. I provided some biographical information about the author ,Henry James, as well as biographical information about the poet,Lord Byron. Critically, I further discussed the characteristics of the Byronic hero as an archetype derived from Milton's "Paradise Lost" which we studied in part last year.