[50] See the Nation, volume xciv., No. 2436, March 7, 1912.
[51] Examples are Elijah’s Mantle (1807) by James Sayer (1748–1823), with its answer, the anonymous Elijah’s Mantle Parodied (1807); the Uti Possidetis and Status Quo (1807), The Devil and the Patriot (1807), and Canning’s famous ballad The Pilot that Weathered the Storm.
[52] Poetry, i., 17.
[53] Letters, i., 209.
[54] It is probable that Byron’s verses are modelled somewhat on the Epistle on His Schoolfellows at Eton (1766) by his relative and guardian, Lord Carlisle (1748–1825).
[55] Letters, i., 47.
[56] Letters, i., 183.
[57] Letters, i., 167.
[58] Letters, i., 211.
[59] Letters, i., 212.