Satirist
, a monthly magazine, illustrated with coloured cartoons, three attacks were made on Byron, which he attributed to Clarke:
- October, 1807 (vol. i pp. 77-81), a review of Hours of Idleness;
- June, 1808 (vol. ii p. 368), verses on "Lord B — n to his Bear. To the tune of 'Lo chin y gair;'"
- August, 1808 (vol. iii pp. 78-86), a review of Poems Original and Translated.
Byron's reply was the passage in
English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers
(lines 973-980; see also the notes), where Clarke is described as
"A would-be satirist, a hired Buffoon,
A monthly scribbler of some low Lampoon," etc.;
and also the Postscript to the second edition (see
Poems
, vol. i p. 382). In the