as the "Messiah of Royalty," but
metaphorically
to the poem,
which would descend in the "Capacity of Preserver" (see Sir W.
which would descend in the "Capacity of Preserver" (see Sir W.
Byron
]
[ir] {555}_The enclosed lines, as you will directly perceive, are
written by the Rev. W. L. Bowles. Of course it is for him to deny them,
if they are not_. --[_Letter to Moore, September_ 17, 1821, _Letters_,
1901, v. 364. ]
[592] [A few days before Byron enclosed these lines in a letter to Moore
(September 17, 1821) he had written to Murray (September 12): "If ever I
_do_ return to England . . . I will write a poem to which _English Bards,
etc. _, shall be New Milk, in comparison. Your present literary world of
mountebanks stands in need of such an Avatar. " Hence the somewhat
ambiguous title. The word "Avatar" is not only applied ironically to
George IV.
as the "Messiah of Royalty," but metaphorically to the poem,
which would descend in the "Capacity of Preserver" (see Sir W. Jones,
_Asiatic Research_, i. 234).
The "fury" which sent Byron into this "lawless conscription of
rhythmus," was inspired partly by an ungenerous attack on Moore, which
appeared in the pages of _John Bull_ ("Thomas Moore is not likely to
fall in the way of knighthood . . . being public defaulter in his office
to a large amount. . . . [August 5]. It is true that we cannot from
principle esteem the writer of the _Twopenny Postbag_. . . . It is equally
true that we shrink from the profligacy," etc.
[ir] {555}_The enclosed lines, as you will directly perceive, are
written by the Rev. W. L. Bowles. Of course it is for him to deny them,
if they are not_. --[_Letter to Moore, September_ 17, 1821, _Letters_,
1901, v. 364. ]
[592] [A few days before Byron enclosed these lines in a letter to Moore
(September 17, 1821) he had written to Murray (September 12): "If ever I
_do_ return to England . . . I will write a poem to which _English Bards,
etc. _, shall be New Milk, in comparison. Your present literary world of
mountebanks stands in need of such an Avatar. " Hence the somewhat
ambiguous title. The word "Avatar" is not only applied ironically to
George IV.
as the "Messiah of Royalty," but metaphorically to the poem,
which would descend in the "Capacity of Preserver" (see Sir W. Jones,
_Asiatic Research_, i. 234).
The "fury" which sent Byron into this "lawless conscription of
rhythmus," was inspired partly by an ungenerous attack on Moore, which
appeared in the pages of _John Bull_ ("Thomas Moore is not likely to
fall in the way of knighthood . . . being public defaulter in his office
to a large amount. . . . [August 5]. It is true that we cannot from
principle esteem the writer of the _Twopenny Postbag_. . . . It is equally
true that we shrink from the profligacy," etc.
