Byron’s Babel: Scriblerian Orientalism and the Romantic-Era “Pope Controversy”

Reilly talks about of Pope's Scriblerian mode of Orientalist imitation. This Scriblerian mode not only informed Byron's representation of Pope as a Greek temple flanked by a Gothic cathedral and a Turkish mosque, but it also contributed to his enigmatic trope of "Babel" in Don Juan and, paradoxically, to his characterization of Romantic poetry as a "mosque beside a Grecian temple of the purest architecture.