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“Let Satire Be My Song”: Byron’s English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers

• Introduction
• Time was, ere these degenerate days
• Critics all are ready made
• Let Satire be my song
• I too can hunt a Poetaster down
• Now to the Drama turn — Oh! motley sight!
• Neglected Genius!
• Yet once again adieu!
• The binding of this volume is considerably too valuable for the Contents.

Now to the Drama turn - Oh! motley sight!

	James Gillray (1756-1815). Blowing up the Pic Nics: or, Harlequin Quixote attacking the Puppets (London, April 2nd, 1802).	Charles Williams. The Genius of Theatricals Bringing John Bull to His Senses!!! (London, 1806).
	August von Kotzebue (1761-1819). Pizarro. The Spaniards in Peru: manuscript [in an unidentified hand], 1799.	Guiseppe Naldi (1770-1820). Engraved portrait of Naldi (1809).
	Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Iohn Bull – Settling the Opera Disputes (London, 1808).	Engraving of Miss Gayton (ca. 1809).
	Vincenzo Pucitta (1778-1861). Dolce Tranquillità ... in the Opera of I Villeggiatori Bizzarri (London, ca. 1809).	Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (1748-1825). Thoughts upon the Present Condition of the Stage, and upon the Construction of a New Theatre, New ed. (London, 1809).