The poetry of the _Anti-Jacobin_ includes illustrations of many varied satiric forms. _New Morality_ is a set, formal satire in conventional couplets and balanced lines, superior in technique to the best work of Gifford and Mathias, and not unworthy of comparison with many of the satires of Pope. _Acme and Septimius, or the Happy Union_ is a short informal verse tale, reminiscent in manner of the unedifying personalities in the _Rolliad_. There are satiric imitations of Horace and Catullus. There are parodies of many sorts: the _Needy Knife Grinder_, an artistic parody of Southey’s sapphics; the _Loves of the Triangles_, a burlesque of Darwin’s _Loves of the Plants_; the _Progress of Man_, ridiculing the tedious didacticism of Payne Knight; and _Chevy Chace_, a parody of the romantic ballad. Hudibrastic couplets are used in _A Consolatory Address to his Gunboats, by Citizen Muskein_; anapests, in the _Translation of a Letter_, in the style of Anstey; and doggerel, in the _Elegy on the Death of Jean Bon André_. The material of the satire comprehends events in politics, in literature, in philosophy, and, to some extent, in society. Thus, in small compass, the poetry of the _Anti-Jacobin_ offers a fruitful field for study. In more than one respect, too, it furnished suggestions for the nineteenth century. _Ballynahinch_ and the _Translation of a Letter_ may have had some influence on the manner and versification of Moore and Byron. Certain of the _Odes_, notably the imitation of Horace, III, 25, have the delicate touch which was to mark the lighter satire of the Smiths and Praed, and, later, of Calverley, Barham, and Locker. In its rare combination of refined raillery with subtle irony and underlying seriousness, the satire of the _Anti-Jacobin_ anticipates the brilliance of _Punch_ in the days when Thackeray was a contributor to its pages. The dexterous and artistic humor of Canning and his confederates did not drive out the cut-and-slash method of Gifford, but it did succeed in teaching the lesson that mockery and wit are fully as effectual as vituperation in remedying a public evil. At the time of the subsidence of the _Anti-Jacobin_ in 1798,[48] the boy Byron, just made a lord by the death of his great-uncle on May 19, 1798, was in his eleventh year. From this date on, therefore, it is necessary to take account not only of the satiric literature which may have influenced his work, but also of the events in politics and society which were occurring around him and which determined in many ways the course of his career as a satirist. From his environment and his associations came often his provocation and his material.