ABSTRACT
From Byron’s Letters and Journals, ed. R. E. Prothero (1898–1901), vi, pp. 387–9. In this note in the appendix to The Two Foscari Byron countered the attacks made in Southey’s Vision of Judgement. Southey replied with a letter to the Courier. Writing to Grosvenor Bedford in January 1822, Southey stated: ‘His affectation of contempt comes to my hands curiously, just after I have received from Murray an account of the manner in which he extolled Roderick upon its first appearance. But this inconsistency, which must be known to all his friends, is beneath my notice’ (Curry, ii, p. 233).
