ABSTRACT
Byron, Childe Harold, I-II (1812); Belle Assemblée, 2nd Series, VI (Supplement for 1812), 349–354. The poetic couplet in the second paragraph – especially appropriate to Byron’s life and poetry – is slightly misquoted from Pope’s Essay on Criticism (II, 53–54). The fate of Orpheus, against which the reviewer warns Byron, was to be torn apart by maddened women who were devotees of Bacchus.
