ABSTRACT
Byron, Manfred (1817); Monthly Review, 2nd Series, LXXXII1 (July 1817), 300–307. The reviewer’s advice, as well as his judgment of the high intrinsic merit of the poetry in Manfred, seem to have been vindicated by time. Modern students who read Manfred without having waded through all of Byron’s preceding volumes are probably unable to imagine the cumulative effect of his poetry (and that of his imitators) in bulk.
