Hovey and Carman were members of the "Visionists" social circle along with F. Holland Day and Herbert Copeland, who published the "Vagabondia" series.

Some twenty-nine poets have attempted to write sequels for Byron's Don Juan.

Samuel Claggett Chew praised Hovey's “Canto XVII” in his book To the End of the Trail.

The poet refuses to take up the poem at the point at which Death had cut him short.— Southey’s forgotten; so is Castlereagh; But there are fools and scoundrels still today.

Byron is full of curiosity as to events on earth: I’ve such a next-day’s thirst for information, I’d even be content to read the Nation.