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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.

Time was, ere these degenerate days

	John Dryden (1631-1700). Mac Flecknoe, or, A Satyr on the True-Blew-Protestant Poet, T. S. (London, 1682).	Alexander Pope (1688-1744). An Essay on Criticism (London, 1711).
	Alexander Pope (1688-1744). The Dunciad (London, 1728).	Charles Churchill (1731-1764). The Apology: Addressed to the Critical Reviewers (London, 1761).
	William Gifford (1756-1826). The Baviad: a Paraphrastic Imitation of the First Satire of Persius (London, 1791).	Thomas James Mathias (1754?-1835). The Pursuits of Literature, Part 1 (London, 1794).
	Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin (London, 1799).	Lady Anne Hamilton (1766-1846). The Epics of the Ton, 2nd ed. (London, 1807).