COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE BYRON AS A SATIRIST IN VERSE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS SALES AGENTS NEW YORK: LEMCKE & BUECHNER 30–32 WEST 27TH STREET LONDON: HENRY FROWDE AMEN CORNER, E.C. TORONTO: HENRY FROWDE 25 RICHMOND STREET, W. LORD BYRON AS A SATIRIST IN VERSE BY CLAUDE M. FUESS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, IN THE FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEW YORK 1912 Copyright, 1912 BY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS Printed from type, July, 1912 _All rights reserved_ _This Monograph has been approved by the Department of English and Comparative Literature in Columbia University as a contribution to knowledge worthy of publication._ A. H. THORNDIKE, _Secretary_. To MY WIFE PREFACE This dissertation is an out-growth of some studies in English satire, particularly in the eighteenth century, and the book is to be regarded merely as a chapter in the history of English satiric poetry as a whole. The initial suggestion for this special phase of the broader subject came from Professor W. P. Trent, to whose wide scholarship and suggestive comment I have been throughout under great obligation. Professor A. H. Thorndike, who, with Professor Trent, read the work in manuscript, contributed valuable advice regarding its arrangement and contents; while Professor J. B. Fletcher was of much assistance in criticising the sections dealing with Byron’s indebtedness to the Italian poets. My colleague, Mr. A. W. Leonard, read the first two chapters, and offered much aid in connection with their style and structure. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the stimulus given by my studies under various members of the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, among them the late Professor G. R. Carpenter, Professor W. A. Neilson, now at Harvard, Mr. J. E. Spingarn, and Professors Krapp, Lawrence, and Matthews. C. M. F. PHILLIPS ACADEMY, ANDOVER, _June 19, 1912_. CONTENTS