"Hunt's letter is probably the exact piece of vulgar coxcombry that you might expect from his situation. He is a good man with some practical element in his chaos, but spoilt by the Christ Church Hospital and a Sunday newspaper to say nothing of the Surrey Gaol, which converted him into a martyr.... Of my friend Hunt, I have already said that he is anything but vulgar in his manners [a statement repeated again in 1822[336]]; and of his disciples, therefore, I will not judge of their manners from their verses. They may be honourable and gentlemanly men for what I know; but the latter quality is studiously excluded from their publications."[337] Hunt did not see or hear from Byron from 1817 until 1821. No further mention of Hunt occurs in Byron's writings during this period except the reference to his influence on Barry Cornwall's _Sicilian Story_ and _Marcian Colonna_,[338] and another to the Cockney School in Byron's controversy with Bowles. In explanation of this break in the intercourse Hunt said, in 1828, that "Byron had become not very fond of his reforming acquaintances."[339] Hunt's criticism of Byron's writings was not an important factor in his early literary development, as was the case with Shelley and Keats. Yet it deserves brief attention. _The Examiner_ of October 18, 1812, contained the address of Byron on the opening of the Drury Lane Theatre and a commendation of its "natural domestic touch" and of its independence. Hunt's _Feast of the Poets_ as it appeared first in _The Reflector_ contained no mention of Byron. The separate edition of 1814 devoted seven pages of the added notes to a wordy discussion of his work and to personal advice. Byron in a letter of February 9, 1814, thanked Hunt for the "handsome note." The next mentions of Bryon were in _The Examiner_: a notice of his ode on Napoleon April 24, 1814; _Illustrations of Lord Byron's Works_ on September 4 of the same year; an elegy, _Oh Snatched Away in Beauty's Bloom_, April 23, 1815; _The Renegade's Feelings Among the Tombs of Heroes_, March 3, 1816; and finally, an announcement of an opera founded on _The Corsair_, August 31, 1817. A review of the first and second cantos of _Don Juan_ appeared in _The Examiner_ of October 31, 1819. Byron's extraordinary variety and sudden transition of mood, his power in wielding satire and humor, his knowledge of human nature in its highest and lowest passions, his contribution to the mock-heroic and the sincere, the "strain of rich and deep beauty" in the descriptions were pointed out. Any immoral tendency is denied: "The fact is at the bottom of these questions, that many things are made vicious which are not so by nature; and many things made virtuous, which are only so by calling and agreement; and it is on the horns of this self-created dilemma, that society is continually writhing and getting desperate!" _The Examiner_ of