ABSTRACT
[Byron] Monody on the Death of ... Sheridan (1816) and Charles Phillips, A Garland for . . . Sheridan (1816); Eclectic Review, 2nd Series, VI (Nov.1815), 502–506. Though the reviewer is not aware of Byron’s authorship of the Monody, he recognizes its superiority, poetic and moral, to the Garland by Charles Phillips (?1787–1859), a lawyer whose published speech defending adultery in the case of Guthrie vs. Sterne (p. 506) was castigated in the Edinburgh Review by [Jeffrey?], the “Northern Zoilus” (a grammarian who criticized Homer). Thomas Taylor (p. 502) is “the Platonist” who not only translated Plato and wrote commentaries on the mystery religions but in his private life also attempted to revive the latter.
