It was intended to be called poetry." The "Bride of Abydos" was received with almost as much applause as the "Giaour." "Lord Byron," said Sir James Mackintosh, "is the author of the day; six thousand of his 'Bride of Abydos' have been sold within a month." "The Corsair" was Lord Byron's next poem, written with great vehemence, literally "struck off at a heat," at the rate of about two hundred lines a day,--"a circumstance," says Moore, "that is, perhaps, wholly without a parallel in the history of genius." "The Corsair" was begun on the 18th, and finished on the 31st of December, 1813.
A sudden impulse induced Lord Byron to present the copyright of this poem also to Mr.Dallas, with the single stipulation that he would offer it for publication to Mr.Murray, who eventually paid Mr.Dallas five hundred guineas for the copyright, and the work was published in February 1814.

The following letters will give some idea of the reception it met with.
_John Murray to Lord Byron_.
_February_ 3, 1814.
MY LORD, I have been unwilling to write until I had something to say, an occasion to which I do not always restrict myself.

I am most happy to tell you that your last poem _is_--what Mr.Southey's is _called_--_a Carmen Triumphale_.

Never, in my recollection, has any work, since the "Letter of Burke to the Duke of Bedford," excited such a ferment--a ferment which, I am happy to say, will subside into lasting fame.

I sold, on the day of publication--a thing perfectly unprecedented--10,000 copies....
Gifford did what I never knew him do before--he repeated several passages from memory." The "Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte," which appeared in April 1814, was on the whole a failure.