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The idea of Byron\\'s The Vision of Judgment is partly piece of writing and to some extent political, but its spring was Byron\\'s execration of Cant and false piety.

On the destruction of King George III, old, mad, and blind, in 1820, the Poet Laureate Robert Southey make a complimentary verse. Written in unrhymed hexameter, its attempts at politeness achieved no more than a tired affectation. But far worse was its lip service and bootlicking delivery. Entitled \\"The Vision of Judgment\\" it showed George III\\'s triumphal passage into the gates of shangri-la and the denunciation of his enemies. To Byron, the blatant flattery of a King, who was at greatest inferior and at most unpleasant tyrannical, was highly unpalatable.

Byron was principally angry because he saw Southey as a disloyal - one who had erstwhile espoused the broad cause, but had after exchanged his corporate colours to arm the pronouncement Tory group. Further Southey had in public attacked Byron\\'s verse as happiness to the \\"Satanic School\\" whose outcome was to weaken spirituality and to dissolute motive. Southey was liable too, as Byron believed, for spreading convinced shameful rumours going on for Byron\\'s life span in Switzerland. (Byron indeed had burning personal matters beside roughly cardinal to cardinal women). Byron here took paying back by assailing some Southey and his \\"Vision\\" next to generous scorn.

At the computer scientist of Heaven, guarded by St. Peter, we discovery the archangel Michael and Satan claiming King George\\'s spirit for region and snake pit severally. The juncture comes when the the tempter Asmodeus comes carrying the versifier Southey himself, interpreted in the Lake District of England as he was letters his \\"Vision\\". Southey, to his delight, is invited to declaim his poem solely to insight its hexameter so blundering as to go against recitation.

After this being silly on his \\"gouty feet\\" Byron lets him photographic film off an account of his industrial plant as a ratter. He had documented praising regicide as besides all kings. He had scrivened both for and in opposition republics, warfare, the reviewing business and besides anti-government planning. He offers to keep in touch the enthusiasm of Satan; and when Satan denies the offer, to keep up a correspondence Michael\\'s duration. As he starts to execute his \\"Vision\\" the assembled angels, devils and ghosts all vanished to evade the unspeakable feel. St. Peter knocks hair beside his keys Southey, who water downcast into a lake, but shortly came up to the surface

\\"For all corrupted holding are buoyed suchlike corks\\" and he may be concealed at his den now to \\"scrawl some \\'Life\\' or \\'Vision\\'\\".

Byron\\'s Vision is a clown sarcasm whose topic is eroding discoloured by a withering scorn, scorn and mirth at Southey the man and writer.