ABSTRACT
For Byron's comment see above p. 137. Wilson also reviewed this canto anonymously for Blackwood's Magazine, May 1818. Later, in his ‘Detached Thoughts’ (15 October 1821), Byron repudiated the comparison between Rousseau and himself: ‘I can't see any point of resemblance: he wrote prose, I verse: he was of the people, I of the Aristocracy: he was a philosopher, I am none …’, etc. (LJ, V, 408 f.)
