ABSTRACT
Byron, Hours of Idleness (1807); Eclectic Review, III (Nov. 1807), 989–993. Byron called this review “a furious Philippic, not against the book but the author” and refers to the reviewer as a “reverend divine” (to R. C. Dallas, Jan. 20, 1808). We know nothing more of the critic than Byron did. The earlier profligate but repentent nobleman whose poetry outlives that of all other titled authors (p. 990) was John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647–1680), who ended his life in religious discussions with Gilbert (later Bishop) Burnet.
