Volume 7, Number 2 · August 18, 1966
Byron: The Making of a Comic Poet
By W.H. Auden
Of the poets whom histories of English literature indiscriminately lump together as the Romantics, the three who enjoyed great and immediate success in their own lifetime were Scott, Byron, and, some way behind, Tom Moore. Between 1812 and 1817, for example, Byron's poems brought him in about two thousand pounds a year, a formidable sum for those days.
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