ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the early satires produced by Byron and Hunt: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers and The Feast of the Poets. The correspondence that Byron and Hunt exchanged about these satires serves as a foundation for exploring their shared aims and targets as well as their stylistic divergences. The stylistic differences in the two volumes suggest that Byron and Hunt had taken up opposing positions in a wider critical debate about poetic form that had been earlier pursued by Wordsworth in the Lyrical Ballads.
