Rhyme and Reason; or a new proposal to the public respecting poetry in ordinary

First published in The Liberal, I, 15 October 1822, pp. 81–9; see headnote above, pp. 3–6. In Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries, Hunt declared that the present essay was one from The Liberal which he ‘would save, if I could, from oblivion’ (Lord Byron, p. 62). It was reprinted in a revised and shortened form in The Seer, Part ii, pp. 59–61. Marshall notes that, ‘despite Hunt’s protests, Byron insisted that Hunt wrote “Rhyme and Reason” as a satire upon the love poetry of Thomas Moore’ (p. 88).