ABSTRACT
Byron, Mazeppa (1819); Literary Gazette, July 3, 1819, pp. 417-419. The close verbal criticism of a series of lines (page 417, third column) shows a strength of the Literary Gazette. But in dealing with individual lines and isolated images, good or bad, it encouraged the growth of poetry that (as Matthew Arnold was to complain) emphasized the part at the expense of overall structure and effect; image here replaced Aristotle’s “plot” as the critic’s central concern.
