Byron, Poems [on His Domestic Circumstances]

Byron, Poems (1816); review by Josiah Conder, Eclectic Review, 2nd Series, V (June 1816), 595–599. For the background and the early, unauthorized publication of Byron’s Poems on His Domestic Circumstances, see David V. Erdman, “ ‘Fare Thee Well’ — Byron’s Last Days in England,” in Shelley and his Circle, ed. K. N. Cameron, IV (1970), 638–665. John Cam Hobhouse became Napoleon’s “historiographer” (p. 598) in The Substance of Some Letters written by an Englishman Resident at Paris during the Last Reign of the Emporer Napoleon (1816).