Lord Byron as a satirist in verse

Byron’s puzzling character and fascinating career have been tempting themes for many biographers, little and great, from Sir Egerton Brydges and Tom Moore to Professor Emil Koep...

Enough has been said to hint that Byron’s qualities as a satirist in verse are often best to be explained by a reference to the methods and influence of those who went before hi...

_Fugitive Pieces_, Byron’s first volume of verse, actually printed in November, 1806, was almost immediately suppressed at the instance of his elder friend and self-appointed me...

_English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers_, Byron’s first long poem, is, like the _Dunciad_ and the _Baviad_, a satire principally on literary people. It was not, however, in its inc...

On July 2, 1809, Byron, accompanied by his friend, John Cam Hobhouse, sailed from Falmouth for Lisbon on a trip that was to take him to Spain, Malta, Greece, and Turkey. When he...

During the seven years between the completion of _The Curse of Minerva_ and the publication of _Beppo_, Byron’s contributions to satire were, on the whole, sporadic, ephemeral,...

A few ephemeral verses of this period still remain unnoticed: an occasional epistle in rhyme to Moore or Murray; four brief squibs on Lord Thurlow’s poetry; and several unimport...

Shortly after the momentous year 1816, an extraordinary development took place in the form and spirit of Byron’s satiric work in verse. Up to this date, as we have seen, his sat...

With the exception of _The Ring and the Book_, _Don Juan_, containing approximately 16,000 lines, is probably the longest original poem in English since the _Faerie Queene_; mor...

Byron’s _Vision of Judgment_, printed in the first number of _The Liberal_, October 15, 1820, was the climax of his long quarrel with Southey, the complicated details of which h...

Byron’s _Monody on the Death of Sheridan_, written at Diodati on July 17, 1816, and recited in Drury Lane Theatre on September 7, was followed by a period of several years in wh...