In 1807, Byron's first collection of poems, Leisure Hours, was published, which was reviewed unkindly by the Edinburgh Review. Byron responded with a scathing satire, The English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809). In this early satire, Byron not only caustically ridiculed the editors of the Edinburgh Review for their mediocrity and reactionaryness, but also sharply criticized almost all the authorities of the literature of romanticism of the 1800s - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Moore, Scott, Lewis. Despite the immaturity of many of his judgments, with a clear underestimation of the significance of the work of Wordsworth and Coleridge, Byron took a step forward in the development of aesthetics by decisively separating art from religion. This was reflected in Byron's many years of fascination with free-thinking and atheistic poetry and philosophy of the 18th century, and his commitment to educational “reason.”