ABSTRACT
[Byron] Don Juan, IX–XI (1823); Monthly Magazine, LVI (Dec. 1823), 414–417. The author of “News from Parnassus,” whom I assume to be the same critic throughout the series, can be classified (p. 414) as middle class (not subject to “frivolities of the fashionable”) and probably a not professing Christian (p. 416), though not given to admiration of Byron’s “metaphysics and pyrrhonism” — the skeptical epistemology of Pyrrho of Elis among the ancients and Hume et al. among the moderns (p. 414).
