Byron, Vision of Judgment (in Liberal, No.l)

[Byron] Vision of Judgment (in Liberal, No. 1, 1822); Literary Register, Oct. 19, 1822, pp. 241243; Oct. 26, 1822, pp. 260–262. The spirit of open-mindedness of which the Register boasts on page 241, column 2, represents by this date merely an acceptance of the new status quo, in which traditional Tories and Whigs were fairly well agreed in their principles against the new radical reformers and utilitarians. Though giving lip-service to tolerance of “theoretic” skepticism, the reviewer is another moralistic prude – one who, in this case, prides himself on his mastery of German and Italian literature.