Byron, Sardanapalus [etc.]; Don Juan, I-V; and Shelley, Queen Mab

Works of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (1822); [Byron] Don Juan, I-II (1819) and Don Juan, III-V (1821); Byron, Sardanapalus [etc.] (1821); Shelley, Queen Mab (Clarke piracy, 1821); and two attacks on Byron; Investigator, V (Oct. 1822), 315-371. The reviewer here launches his full-scale attack upon licentious writings of the upper classes. The article is a handbook of the social history of the period. On page 316, a distinction is drawn between the moralistic Society for the Suppression of Vice (which generally enjoys the support of the Investigator) and the Constitutional Association, which the reviewer sees as a political tool of the Tory (and high church) establishment. The reviewer goes on to urge the Society for the Suppression of Vice to prosecute Byron, Shelley, and Lady Morgan as vigorously as it does middle-and lower-class radical authors and publishers (p. 317). The phrase “E.O. tables” (p. 318) refers, apparently, to a simple “Even-Odd” gambling game.