ABSTRACT
These imitations of Byron and Horace Smith, which replaced the Blackwood’s parody ‘Review of Tremaine’, were published in editions of the Rejected Articles from the second 1826 edition onwards (see the introduction above for a full discussion). The ‘Demoniacals. (Posthumous.) By Childe Harold’ are slight imitations of Byron’s slightest manner. The ‘Demoniacals’ adopt the tone of Byron’s occasional lyrical pieces and the formal model for Patmore’s The Token’ is To a Lady’, published in Hours of Idleness (1807). Patmore’s Byron is a doleful egotist, 1 gloom ridden and self-obssessed, and, as in the Hazlitt imitation, Patmore dwells on the marital travails of his imitatee.
