republicanism 180 Scots language 83 sexual frankness 167 Songs, as evidence of cultural nationalism “Tam o’ Shanter” xiv “To a Louse, ” meter 60 use of accentual meter 70 Byron, George Gordon, Lord admiration for Pope 64 “Beppo, ” ottava rima 66 birth xiii The Blues 161 The Bride of Abydos xviii Cain 71 Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage xvii, 128 avoids archaisms 85 as epic 30 epigraph from used by Shelley 17 inclusion in Carey’s Beauties of the Modern Poets 21 and poetry as medium 251