verse-answer

Updated: August 13, 2026

Byron, who had plenty of pluck, and who all his life long inclined in his heart to the Popian school, spent a considerable time upon a verse-answer, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, in which he ran amuck generally, but displayed ability which it was hopeless to seek in his first production.

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