baviad

Updated: June 2, 2025

To do him justice, however, he made his reputation by the work of his own hand, his satires of The Baviad, 1794, and The Mæviad next year, attacking and pretty nearly extinguishing Merry and his Della Cruscans, a set of minor bards and mutual admirers who had infested the magazines and the libraries for some years.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)