S. Y. is "severe _over_ much" and _under_ informed, in his strictures on
the editors of Coleridge's _Works_ (1852), when he blames them for not
giving Coleridge the credit of lines which _did not belong to him_. The
lines which S. Y. quotes, and a "great many more,"--in fact, a "third part
of _Christabel_,"--were sent to _Blackwood's Magazine_ in 1820, by the late
Dr. William Maginn, as a first fruits of those _imitations_ and _parodies_
for which he afterwards became so famous. The success of his imitation of
Coleridge's style is proved by the indignation of your correspondent. It is
no small honour to the memory and talents of the gifted but erratic Maginn,
that the want of his lines should be deemed a defect or omission in "one of
the most beautiful poems in the English language." But in future, before he
condemns editors for carelessness, S. Y. should be sure that he himself is
correct.