![]() ![]() Stung, Byron launched a counterattack in his first satirical poem, “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers” (1809), which was influenced by Alexander Pope’s The Dunciad. ![]() ![]() The new Lord Byron was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge in 1807, he published his first book of poems, Hours of Idleness, which received mildly favorable notices from most literary magazines but one scathing critique from the influential Edinburgh Review. A satirical poem set in Spain, Greece, Russia, and England during the late eighteenth century published, serially, from 1819 to 1824.Ī handsome young Spaniard embarks on a series of amorous adventures in his native country and abroad.Įvents in History at the Time the Poem Takes PlaceĮvents in History at the Time the Poem Was Writtenīorn in 1788, George Gordon became the sixth Baron Byron at age ten, after his great-uncle’s death. ![]()
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