ABSTRACT
Byron, Don Juan, IX-XI (1823); review by John Gibson Lockhart, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, XIV (Sept. 1823), 282-293. Lockhart is obviously the author of this piece – which makes me doubt that he had much to do with the previous letter by “Timothy Tickler.” Lockhart’s high claims for Blackwood’s in the second paragraph are in many ways deserved. His remarks on Byron as the voice of “a great portion of the thinking people” of his time (p. 283) are especially significant, coming as they do from a staunch Tory partisan. Note how, on page 288, Lockhart impishly takes issue with his own John Bull’s Letter to Lord Byron.
