The taxable of Byron's The Vision of Judgment is in part writing and to a degree political, but its spring was Byron's execration of Cant and pretense.
On the passing of King George III, old, mad, and blind, in 1820, the Poet Laureate Robert Southey produced a praising verse form. Written in unrhymed hexameter, its attempts at pride achieved no more than than a overworked swagger. But far worse was its hypocrisy and grovelling tone of voice. Entitled "The Vision of Judgment" it showed George III's ending entrance hall into the gates of nirvana and the denunciation of his enemies. To Byron, the conspicuous compliment of a King, who was at optimal inferior and at inferior tyrannical, was awfully unpalatable.
Byron was above all angry because he saw Southey as a recreant - one who had once espoused the tolerant cause, but had consequently transformed his insignia to patronage the order Tory get-together. Further Southey had publicly attacked Byron's blank verse as happiness to the "Satanic School" whose event was to disobey theology and to perverse ethics. Southey was judicious too, as Byron believed, for wide-spreading confident spicy rumours nearly Byron's existence in Switzerland. (Byron so had burning personal matters next to in the order of 60 to lxx women). Byron present took paying back by assailing some Southey and his "Vision" near too-generous scoff.
At the computer scientist of Heaven, incommunicative by St. Peter, we brainwave the archangel Michael and Satan claiming King George's spirit for part and part severally. The occasion comes when the the tempter Asmodeus comes carrying the writer Southey himself, interpreted in the Lake District of England as he was composition his "Vision". Southey, to his delight, is invitational to do his literary work lone to brainstorm its hexameter so upsetting as to violate recitation.
After this humourous on his "gouty feet" Byron lets him wobble off an side of his works as a deserter. He had scripted praiseful regicide as besides all kings. He had longhand both for and against republics, warfare, the reviewing business and likewise nihilist philosophy. He offers to exchange letters the beingness of Satan; and when Satan denies the offer, to communicate Michael's enthusiasm. As he starts to recite his "Vision" the accumulated angels, devils and ghosts all vanished to get away from the horrible feel. St. Peter knocks descending next to his keys Southey, who water downhill into a lake, but shortly came up to the surface
"For all corrupt property are buoyed similar to corks" and he may be lurking at his den now to "scrawl whatever 'Life' or 'Vision'".
Byron's Vision is a amusing witticism whose topic is erosion imperfect by a withering scorn, disrespect and merriment at Southey the man and writer.