ABSTRACT
Byron, Don Juan, III–V (1821); Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, X (Aug. 1821), 107–115. The “Henry Franklin” of the signature probably represents the same Edinburgh wits who gathered around a tavern table to write the earlier attack on Don Juan, I–II (q.v.). The fiction of the letter from London would have been introduced to keep the magazine from a charge of gross inconsistency. Lockhart’s opinion of Marino Faliero’s inferiority to Don Juan turns up on page 115.
