Sappho and Phaon xv, 157, 163, 165, 224 sexual frankness 167 Robinson, Michael Ramsey, “Ode on the King’s Birthday” 27 Robson, W W., on Byron’s lyric poetry 228 Roby, John, Lorenzo 29 Roebuck, John, defence of Byron against Wordsworth’s works 25 Rogers, Samuel xiv, 10, 16, 17, 21 romances metrical romances 69 prose romances, inclusion of verse 129 and tales 128 Romantic, concept Romantic canon, critical distinctions between Byron and Wordsworth 24–6 Romantic literary theory, anticapitalism 222–3 Romantic poetry 2, anti-imperialism 182–3 Bernstein’s views 270 canon 10