Byron was a very politically-oriented writer he documented his life and times with heavy allusion to the goings-on in politics. There are a few things of note in the first couple of stanzas. Splitting some planet with its playful tail,Īs boats are sometimes by a wanton whale. The Devils had ta’en a longer, stronger pull,Īt sea - which drew most souls another way.Īnd hoarse with having little else to do,īroke out of bounds o’er the ethereal blue, Not that the place by any means was full, So little trouble had been given of late His keys were rusty, and the lock was dull, The gross flattery, the dull impudence, the renegado intolerance, and impious cant of the poem by the author of Wat Tyler, are something so stupendous as to form the sublime of himself – containing the quintessence of his own attributes. It is not impossible that it may be as good as his own, seeing that it cannot, by any species of stupidity, natural or acquired, be worse.
Southey had not rushed in where he had no business, and where he never was before, and never will be again, the following poem would not have been written. Lord Byron took offense to this, and wrote his own version of The Vision of Judgement, and in his own preface, stated: ‘If Mr. In his preface, Southey attacked those ‘men of diseased hearts and depraved imaginations, who, forming a system of opinions to suit their own unhappy course of conduct, have rebelled against the holiest ordinances of human society, and hating that revealed religion which, with all their efforts and bravadoes, they are unable entirely to disbelieve, labour to make others as miserable as themselves, by infecting them with a virus that eats into the soul! The school which they have set up may properly be called the Satanic school for though their productions breathe the spirit of Belial in their lascivious parts, and the spirit of Moloch in those loathsome images of atrocities and horrors which they delight to represent, they are more especially characterised by a Satanic spirit of pride and audacious impiety, which still betrays the wretched feeling of hopelessness wherewith it is allied.’ Upon the death of mad King George III, Robert Southey wrote a poem titled ‘The Vision of Judgement’, which depicted King George III entering Heaven to acclaim and praise.
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