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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.

I too can hunt a Poetaster down

	Anonymous. Tales of Terror (London, 1801).	Thomas Moore (1779-1852). The Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Little (London, 1801).
	Luís de Camões (1524?-1580). Poems, from the Portuguese (London, 1803).	William Hayley (1745-1820). The Triumphs of Temper: a Poem in Six Cantos: autograph manuscript [1781].
	William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850). Fourteen Sonnets, Elegiac and Descriptive, Written during a Tour (Bath, 1789).	Amos Cottle (1768?-1800), trans. Icelandic Poetry, or The Edda of Saemund (Bristol, 1797).
	Anonymous. Shots at the M—re! (London, 1816).	William Finden (1787-1852), engr. Holland House in The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe (London, 1834), vol. 7.