The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry

by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron

X.

English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers. Boston. 1814. [12º.

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Pp. 72.

XI.

English Bards/ And/ Scotch Reviewers;/ A Satire./ By Lord Byron./ From the last London Edition./ I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew!/ Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers./ Shakspeare./ Such shameless bards we have; and yet 'tis true/ There are as mad, abandon'd critics too./ Pope./ New York:/ Published by A. T. Goodrich & Co., 124 Broad-/Way, Corner of Cedar-Street./ I. Seymour, print./ 1817;./ [12º.

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Title, one leaf, pp. i., ii.; Preface to the Third Edition, pp. iii., iv.; Text, pp. 5-54.

Note.—The text numbers 1050 lines, but lacks the Postscript. The misprint "ingenious" for "ingenuous youth," in footnote (p. 7) to line 56, which belongs to the Fourth Edition of 1811, and was corrected by Byron for the Fifth Edition, occurs in this edition.