Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth/Volume 1/Letter 77

To C. SNEYD EDGEWORTH, IN LONDON.

EDGEWORTHSTOWN, April 1810.

I do not like Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, though, as my father says, the lines are very strong, and worthy of Pope and The Dunciad. But I was so much prejudiced against the whole by the first lines I opened upon about the "paralytic muse" of the man who had been his guardian, and is his relation, and to whom he had dedicated his first poems, that I could not relish his wit. He may have great talents, but I am sure he has neither a great nor good mind; and I feel dislike and disgust for his Lordship.