SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO
ENTITLED
BY THE AUTHOR
OF "WAT TYLER.
OF "WAT TYLER.
Byron
, by Miss Jane Waldie] .
.
.
I perceive
(_horresco referens_) that it is written by a WOMAN! ! ! In that case you
must suppress my note and answer. . . . I can only say that I am sorry that
a Lady should say anything of the kind. What I would have said to one of
the other sex you know already. " Nevertheless, the note was appended to
the first edition, which appeared April 21, 1821. ]
THE VISION OF JUDGMENT.
BY
QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS.
SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR
OF "WAT TYLER. "
"A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!
I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word. "
[_Merchant of Venice_, act iv. sc. 1, lines 218, 336. ]
INTRODUCTION TO _THE VISION OF JUDGMENT_.
Byron's _Vision of Judgment_ is a parody of Southey's _Vision of
Judgement_.
The acts or fyttes of the quarrel between Byron and Southey occur in the
following order. In the summer of 1817 Southey, accompanied by his
friends, Humphrey Senhouse and the artist Edward Nash, passed some weeks
(July) in Switzerland. They visited Chamouni, and at Montanvert, in the
travellers' album, they found, in Shelley's handwriting, a Greek
hexameter verse, in which he affirmed that he was an "atheist," together
with an indignant comment ("fool! " also in Greek) superadded in an
unknown hand (see _Life of Shelley_, by E. Dowden, 1886, ii. 30, note).
Southey copied this entry into his note-book, and "spoke of the
circumstance on his return" (circ.
(_horresco referens_) that it is written by a WOMAN! ! ! In that case you
must suppress my note and answer. . . . I can only say that I am sorry that
a Lady should say anything of the kind. What I would have said to one of
the other sex you know already. " Nevertheless, the note was appended to
the first edition, which appeared April 21, 1821. ]
THE VISION OF JUDGMENT.
BY
QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS.
SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR
OF "WAT TYLER. "
"A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!
I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word. "
[_Merchant of Venice_, act iv. sc. 1, lines 218, 336. ]
INTRODUCTION TO _THE VISION OF JUDGMENT_.
Byron's _Vision of Judgment_ is a parody of Southey's _Vision of
Judgement_.
The acts or fyttes of the quarrel between Byron and Southey occur in the
following order. In the summer of 1817 Southey, accompanied by his
friends, Humphrey Senhouse and the artist Edward Nash, passed some weeks
(July) in Switzerland. They visited Chamouni, and at Montanvert, in the
travellers' album, they found, in Shelley's handwriting, a Greek
hexameter verse, in which he affirmed that he was an "atheist," together
with an indignant comment ("fool! " also in Greek) superadded in an
unknown hand (see _Life of Shelley_, by E. Dowden, 1886, ii. 30, note).
Southey copied this entry into his note-book, and "spoke of the
circumstance on his return" (circ.
