ABSTRACT
Byron, The Giaour (1813); Scots Magazine, LXXV (October 1813), 769-773. By the “first production” of Byron (p. 770) the reviewer must refer to Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, I-II. He must be a young reviewer to have been unaware of Hours of Idleness and English Bards. The reviewer writes as an Englishman reviewing an Englishman (p. 769), though Byron, by his maternal ancestry and his early training, might have been legitimately included in this “Scottish Review,” ordinarily confined to Scots authors. Apparently the reviewer – perhaps the editor of the period – also wrote on Byron’s subsequent publications until the end of the Scots and the advent of the Edinburgh Magazine.
