 More recently, Thomas McLean (2012) considers "Mazeppa" "Byron's Polish poem" in light of the British fascination with Tadeusz Kościuszko and sees Mazeppa as an empowering figure for Europe's other smaller nations.Babinski points out that although "Mazeppa" received a flurry of reviews upon publication, later critics of Byron have rarely addressed the poem.Certainly there is less scholarship on "Mazeppa" than on many of Byron's other narrative poems, and "Mazeppa" does not appear in Byron texts such as the 1978 Norton critical edition.