{"id":1214,"date":"2015-04-19T12:51:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T12:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishhistory.net\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2015-04-19T12:51:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T12:51:33","slug":"versicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/byron\/poems\/versicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Versicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This tongue-in-cheek literary criticism builds to a very funny \u2013 and pointed \u2013 finish, namely the 1816 publication of Lady Caroline Lamb\u2019s Glenarvon, written after her infamous affair with Byron ended. The character Glenarvon was her thinly veiled portrait of Byron.<br \/>\nByron wrote the poem on 25 March 1817. The poem implies his reaction to her novel was primarily bemusement. But in private he was angry and appalled.<\/p>\n<p>The poem references the following works \u2013 Coleridge\u2019s Christabel; W.L. Bowles\u2019s The Missionary of the Andes; H. Gally Knight\u2019s Ilderim; Margaret Holford\u2019s Margaret; J.W. Webster\u2019s Waterloo; and Wordsworth\u2019s The White Doe of Rylstone.<\/p>\n<p>I read the \u201cChristabel;\u201d<br \/>\nVery well:<br \/>\nI read the \u201cMissionary;\u201d<br \/>\nPretty \u2013 very;<br \/>\nI tried at \u201cIlderim;\u201d<br \/>\nAhem!<br \/>\nI read a sheet of Marg\u2019ret of Anjou;\u201d<br \/>\nCan you?;<br \/>\nI turned a page of Webster\u2019s \u201cWaterloo;\u201d<br \/>\nPooh! Pooh!<br \/>\nI looked at Wordsworth\u2019s milk-white \u201cRylstone Doe;\u201d<br \/>\nHillo!<br \/>\nI read \u201cGlenarvon,\u201d too, by Caro Lamb;<br \/>\nGod damn!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tongue-in-cheek literary criticism builds to a very funny \u2013 and pointed \u2013 finish, namely the 1816 publication of Lady Caroline Lamb\u2019s Glenarvon, written after her infamous affair with Byron ended. The character Glenarvon was her thinly veiled portrait of Byron. Byron wrote the poem on 25 March 1817. The poem implies his reaction to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}