Excerpt from Letters to Dead Authors This kind Of writing is my pet aversion, he says; and he stands on the ground of Byronic parody. Otherwise he could never have referred to Mr. Swinburne as, in comparison with the eagle, Byron, a bantam! On looking over this Letter to Byron, the Author could scarcely believe that Mr. Swim burne had actually written about Byron in the terms quoted. The reference, however, to Mr. Swinburne's Wordsworth and Byron in The Nineteenth Century for 1884, proved that the parodist did not exaggerate, and that the critic spoke Of Byron's drawling, draggle-tailed drab of a muse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.