ABSTRACT
[Byron] Don Juan, VI-VIII (1823); Literary Examiner, July 5, 1823, pp. 6–12; July 12, 1823, pp. 23–27. The attacks on Don Juan had by this time been taken up by so large a portion of the press that the Hunts felt compelled to counter-attack in advance of the publication of the new cantos. Constitutional Society was – even according to the editors of the Investigator (q.v.), who were sympathetic to censorship of Byron – little more than a party tool of the Tories. Note the reviewer’s contrast of Byron’s satirical manner with Wordsworth’s “Alice Fell” and “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” (p. 8), and the reminder (p. 25) of the rivalry between Byron and Wordsworth.
