Byron, Letter to [John Murray]

Byron, Letter to [John Murray] (1821); review by William Hazlitt, London Magazine, III (June 1821), 593–607. Long’s and the Albany (p. 593) were fashionable London residences for gentlemen. (In 1814 Byron had lodgings at the Albany; in 1815, Walter Scott stayed at Long’s.) Jem Belcher (p. 594) was a leading prize fighter of the day. After his opening ill-tempered remarks, Hazlitt develops an important discussion of the elements of art and nature, but he concludes by filling out the review with a long quotation on Pope (pp. 606–607) from his own earlier Lectures on the English Poets.