ABSTRACT
Byron, Manfred (1817); review by John Wilson, [Blackwood’s] Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, I (June 1817), 289–295. This contribution was by Wilson before he took over the new Blackwood’s. The method he employs — leaning heavily on a scene-by-scene plot summary with quotations — suggests that the piece had originally been written for submission to the more prestigious (and better-paying) Edinburgh Review, for which Wilson later reviewed Childe Harold, IV.
