...isting journalistic tradition in our literature — that of the light, the pretty, the clever, the urbane negligee in prose and rhyme; while his , a story after and Fanny, and his Melanie, after Byron 's Tales, only too well illustrate the now dead but once potent influence of Byron on our minor poets, even on poets utterly unlike Byron in temperament and in mode of life. Yet Willis was a true poe...