ABSTRACT
Byron, Childe Harold, I-II (1812); review by Francis Jeffrey, Edinburgh Review, XIX (Feb. 1812), 466–477. Jeffrey, having received the brunt of Byron’s poetic rejoinder to Brougham’s review, takes his fate into his own hands and treats Byron more respectfully. As in his pedestrian reviews of Wordsworth, Jeffrey plods through the poem under review passage by passage, pausing at the end to allude to Byron’s attack.
