SATANIC SCHOOL.

Authors :: L.MET.
Source :: New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics; 1993, p1114-1114, 1/5p
Publication Year :: 1993
Abstract: The article presents a definition of the term SATANIC SCHOOL. As part of an ongoing feud, Robert Southey, in his preface to A Vision of Judgement, the laureate's eulogy on the death of George III, launched a thinly veiled attack on Byron as the head of the "Satanic School" that was polluting Eng. poetry with "monstrous combinations of horrors and mockery, lewdness and impiety." He declared that the evil of these lascivious productions was political as well as moral, constituting one of the worst offenses against society, subverting the very foundations of human virtue.