ABSTRACT
In finding Keats's poetry distasteful, George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824), took an opposite view to ‘the Snake’ (Shelley); but he was strongly influenced both by Shelley and by the reviews in Blackwood's, as well as by jealousy of his idol, Pope; and his irritable inconsistency is shown in these critical extracts. On the sexual pathology of some comments, see Introduction, p. 35 (Robert Graves has suggested that what Byron actually wrote in Extract (b) was not Mankin but manecon, i.e. catamite).
