Satires, the: Poetry of Lord Byron

In this, the fourth volume of this series, we hear the poetry in which Byron began to make his mark on the world. Though his major breakthrough with Childe Harold is yet to come, his English Bards and Scotch Reviewers was a definite hit in its time, establishing Byron as a known poet and ensuring that his reputation as a literary bad-boy was off to a good start.

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers was his first major satire and one of his most effective; we can't help seeing that the "Scotch ...