ABSTRACT
Byron, Childe Harold, III (1816), Prisoner of Chillon (1816); review by Francis Jeffrey, Edinburgh Review, XXVII (Dec. 1816), 277–310. Jeffrey, extremely conservative in his taste, begins by naming Scott, Campbell, Crabbe, and Moore as those who were Byron’s challengers as the greatest poet of the period, and then he goes on to discuss the poet as “Moral Teacher” (pp. 280 ff.) before entering into a retrospective survey of all Byron’s poems since The Corsair. On page 298 “Macedonia’s Madman” is, of course, Alexander the Great, and “the Swede,” King Charles XII.
