ABSTRACT
Byron, Mazeppa (1819); Theatrical Inquisitor, XV (July 1819), 43–47; (Aug. 1819), 86–91. The sarcasm of the second paragraph intimates that John Murray is fostering the corruption of English literature. The oblique attack on Byron as merely a poet of popular fad is mitigated by the critic’s apparently genuine interest in this poem, even though he calls it “merely a rattle in the hands of fashion” (p. 90).
