ABSTRACT
[Byron] Don Juan, III–V (1821); Gordon, a Tale (1821); Gentleman’s Magazine, XCII-i (Jan. 1822), 48–50. A reader of Gentleman’s Magazine leaps to defend Byron against the petty charges of plagiarism that had been used in previous reviews to belittle him. But note that, while he is alive to the high function of poetry, the unknown correspondent is puritanical enough to wish to ban not only Don Juan but also the amusement park of Vauxhall as immoral (p. 49).
