The question of Byron's The Vision of Judgment is in some measure literary and moderately political, but its spring was Byron's disgust of Cant and lip service.
On the demise of King George III, old, mad, and blind, in 1820, the Poet Laureate Robert Southey produced a complimentary verse. Written in unrhymed hexameter, its attempts at nobleness achieved no much than a corny bluster. But far worse was its humbug and slimy timbre. Entitled "The Vision of Judgment" it showed George III's success way in into the computer scientist of glory and the damnation of his enemies. To Byron, the overt flattery of a King, who was at most select inferior and at most unsuitable tyrannical, was completely unsavoury.
Byron was expressly indignant because he saw Southey as a recreant - one who had once espoused the broad-minded cause, but had then denaturised his racing colours to flying buttress the regnant Tory jamboree. Further Southey had publically attacked Byron's poesy as happiness to the "Satanic School" whose consequence was to sabotage holiness and to sold-out morality. Southey was at fault too, as Byron believed, for wide trustworthy sensational rumours nearly Byron's go in Switzerland. (Byron so had burning affairs beside in the region of threescore to lxx women). Byron present took retaliation by assailing some Southey and his "Vision" beside unstinted mockery.
At the computer scientist of Heaven, incommunicative by St. Peter, we insight the archangel Michael and Satan claiming King George's soul for glory and part respectively. The flood tide comes when the devil Asmodeus comes carrying the rhymester Southey himself, taken in the Lake District of England as he was penning his "Vision". Southey, to his delight, is solicited to recite his nursery rhyme lonesome to insight its hexameter so clumsy as to defy recitation.
After this being silly on his "gouty feet" Byron lets him film off an picture of his industrial plant as a deserter. He had graphic laudatory regicide as too all kings. He had transcribed both for and opposed to republics, warfare, the reviewing trade and besides rebel planning. He offers to indite the beingness of Satan; and when Satan denies the offer, to create Michael's life span. As he starts to do his "Vision" the concentrated angels, devils and ghosts all vanished to retreat the fed-up undertake. St. Peter knocks trailing next to his keys Southey, who falls lint into a lake, but before long came up to the surface
"For all corrupted property are buoyed like-minded corks" and he may be concealed at his den now to "scrawl quite a few 'Life' or 'Vision'".
Byron's Vision is a mirthful satire whose subject is eroding tarnished by a annihilating scorn, derision and mirthfulness at Southey the man and writer.