Dream_, V, 1, 12.
115. _Above this visible diurnal sphere_. Milton's _Paradise Lost_, Book
VII, 22.
116. _Parca quod satis est manu_. Horace, _Odes_, III, 16, 24.
116. _Lord Fanny_. A nickname bestowed upon Lord Hervey, an effeminate
noble of the time of George II.
117. _O! rus, quando ego te aspiciam_. Horace, _Satires_, II, 6, 60.
117. _Mordecai_. See Book of _Esther_, V, 13.
118. _Last of the Romans_. Mark Antony in Shakespeare's _Julius Caesar_,
III, 2, 194.
120. _Full fathom five_. Shakespeare's _The Tempest_, I, 2, 396.
126. _Ohe! jam satis est_. Horace, _Satires_, I, 5, 12-13.
126. _Tristram Shandy_. The excommunication is in vol. III, chap. XI.
133. _Put a girdle_, etc. See Shakespeare's _Midsummer-Night's Dream_,
II, 1, 175.
JOHN KEATS
The history of English poetry offers no more interesting case between
poet and critic than that of John Keats. The imputed influence of a
savage critique in hastening the death of the poet has given the
_Quarterly Review_ an unenviable notoriety which clings in spite of the
efforts of scholars to establish the truth. To many students, Keats,
_Endymion_, and _Quarterly_ are practically connotative terms; and this
is a direct result of the righteous but misguided indignation of
Shelley--misguided because his information was incomplete and the more
guilty party escaped, thus inflicting upon the _Quarterly_ the brunt of
the opprobrium of which far more than half should be accredited to
_Blackwood's Magazine_.
_Endymion_ was published in April, 1818. One of the publishers (Taylor
and Hessey) requested Gifford, then editor of the _Quarterly Review_, to
treat the poem with indulgence. This indiscreet move probably actuated
Gifford to provide a severe critique; at any rate, in the belated April
number of the _Quarterly_, XIX (204-208), which was not issued until
September, appeared the famous review. A persistent error, which has
crept into W.M. Rossetti's _Life of Keats_, into Anderson's
bibliography, and even into the article on Gifford in the _Dictionary of
National Biography_, attributes this article to Gifford himself; but it
is known to be the work of John Wilson Croker. (See the article on
Croker in _Dict. Nat. Biog._ From the article on John Murray (_ibid._)
we learn that Gifford was not wholly responsible for a single article in
the _Quarterly_.)
Meanwhile, _Blackwood's Magazine_, III (519-524) had made _Endymion_ the
text of its fourth infamous tirade against the Cockney School of Poetry.
The signature "Z" was appended to all the articles, but the critic's
identity has not yet been discovered. Leigh Hunt thought it was Walter
Scott, Haydon suspected the actor Terry, but it is more probable that
the honor belongs to John Gibson Lockhart. One account attributes the
entire series to Lockhart; another attributes the series to Wilson, but
holds Lockhart responsible for the _Endymion_ article. Mr. Andrew Lang,
in his _Life and Letters of Lockhart_, dismissed the matter by saying
that he did not know who wrote the article.
The _Quarterly_ critique was reprinted in Stevenson's _Early Reviews_,
in Rossetti's _Life of Keats_, in Buxton Forman's edition of Keats'
_Poetical Works_ (Appendix V) and elsewhere. From a critical point of
view, it is, as Forman terms it, a "curiously unimportant production."
The student will at once question its power to cause distress in the
mind of the poet; as for malignant severity, there are several reviews
among the present reprints that put the brief _Quarterly_ article to
shame. When we turn to what Swinburne calls the "obscener insolence" of
the _Blackwood_ article, we find an unrestrained torrent of abuse
against both Hunt and Keats that amply justified Landor's subsequent
allusions to the _Blackguard's Magazine_. The _Quarterly_ critique was
captious and ill-tempered; but the _Blackwood_ article was a personal
insult.
It is impossible to consider in detail the vexed question of the
influence which these reviews had upon Keats. In Mr. W.M. Rossetti's
_Life of Keats_, pp. (83-106) there is a full discussion of the evidence
on the subject. Within a few months after the appearance of the
articles, Keats wrote:--"Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on
the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic
of his own works. My own domestic criticism has given me pain without
comparison beyond what _Blackwood_ or _The Quarterly_ could possibly
inflict." Some weeks later he wrote that the _Quarterly_ article had
only served to make him more prominent among bookmen. After some time
he expressed himself less confidently and deprecated the growing power
of the reviews, but there is no evidence that he fretted over the
critiques. Haydon tells us that Keats was morbid and silent for hours at
a time; but it is quite likely that the consciousness of his physical
affliction--hereditary consumption--was oppressing his mind. His death
occurred on February 23, 1821--about two and a half years after the
appearance of the _Endymion_ critiques.
Shelley had gone to Italy before the reviews were published. He heard of
the _Quarterly_ article, but knew nothing of _Blackwood's_ while writing
_Adonais_; hence in both poem and preface, the former review is charged
with having caused Keats' death. Shelley declared that Keats' agitation
over the review ended in the rupture of a blood vessel in the lungs with
an ensuing rapid consumption. These statements, which Shelley must have
had indirectly, have not been substantiated. We are forced to the
conclusion now generally accepted--that Keats, although sensitive to
personal ridicule, was superior to the stings of review criticism and
that the distressing events of the last year of his life were sufficient
to assure the early triumph of the inherent and unconquerable disease.
141. _Miss Baillie_. Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) authoress of numerous
forgotten plays and poems which enjoyed great popularity in their day.
142. _Land of Cockaigne_. Here means London, and refers specifically to
the Cockney poets. An old French poem on the _Land of Cockaigne_
described it as an ideal land of luxury and ease. The best authorities
do not accept Cockney as a derivative form. The Cockney School was
composed of Londoners of the middle-class, supposedly ill-bred and
imperfectly educated. The critics took special delight in dwelling upon
the humble origin of the Cockneys, their lack of university training,
and especially their dependence on translations for their knowledge of
the classics.
142. _When Leigh Hunt left prison_. Hunt had been imprisoned for libel
on the Prince Regent (1812).
146. _Vauxhall_. The Gardens were a favorite resort for Londoners early
in the eighteenth century and remained popular for a long time. See
Thackeray's _Vanity Fair_ (chap. VI). The implication in the present
passage is that the Cockney poet gets his ideas of nature from the
immediate vicinity of London.
147. _East of Temple-bar_. That is, living in the City of London.
150. _Young Sangrado_. An allusion to Doctor Sangrado, in Le Sage's _Gil
Blas_ (1715).
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Tennyson's first poetical efforts, which appeared in _Poems by Two
Brothers_ (1827) attracted little critical attention. His prize-poem,
_Timbuctoo_ (1829) received the interesting notice here reprinted from
the _Athenaeum_ (p. 456) of July 22, 1829. _Timbuctoo_ was printed in the
_Cambridge Chronicle_ (July 10, 1829); in the _Prolusiones Academicae_
(1829); and several times in _Cambridge Prize-Poems_. The use of heroic
metre in prize-poems was traditional; hence the award was an enviable
tribute to the blank-verse of _Timbuctoo_.
Tennyson's success was emphasized by the remarkable series of reviews
that greeted his earliest volumes of poems. The _Poems, chiefly Lyrical_
(1830) were welcomed by Sir John Bowring in the _Westminster Review_, by
Leigh Hunt in the _Tatler_, by Arthur Hallam in the _Englishman's
Magazine_, and by John Wilson in _Blackwood's Magazine_. The _Poems_
(1833) were reviewed by W.J. Fox in the _Monthly Repository_, and by
John Stuart Mill in the _Westminster Review_. This array of names was
indeed a tribute to the poet; but the unfavorable review, was, as usual,
most significant. The article written by Lockhart for the _Quarterly
Rev._, XLIX (81-97), has been characterized as "silly and brutal," but
it was neither. Tennyson's fame is secure; we can at least be just to
his early reviewer. It is true that the poet winced under the lash and
that ten years elapsed before his next volume of collected poems
appeared; but Canon Ainger is surely in error when he holds the
_Quarterly Review_ mainly responsible for this long silence. The rich
measure of praise elsewhere bestowed upon the volume would leave us no
alternative but the conclusion that Tennyson was childish enough to
maintain his silence for a decade because Lockhart took liberties with
his poems instead of joining the chorus of adulation. We know that there
were other and stronger reasons for Tennyson's silence and we also know
that the effect of Lockhart's article was decidedly salutary. When the
next collection of _Poems_ (1842) did appear, the shorter pieces
ridiculed by Lockhart were omitted, and the derided passages in the
longer poems were altered.
We may, without conscientious scruples, take Mr. Andrew Lang's advice,
and enjoy a laugh over Lockhart's performance. Its mock appreciations
are, perhaps, far-fetched at times; but there are enough effective
passages to give zest to the article. It has been said in all
seriousness that Lockhart failed to appreciate the beauty of most of
Tennyson's lines, and that he confined his remarks to the most
assailable passages. Surely, when a critic undertakes to write a
mock-appreciation, he will not quote the best verses, to the detriment
of his plan. The poet must see to it that his volume does not contain
enough absurdities to form a sufficient basis for such an article. There
is a striking contrast to the humor of Lockhart in the little-known
review of the same volume by the _Literary Gazette_, 1833, pp.
(772-774). The latter seized upon some crudities that had escaped the
_Quarterly's_ notice, and, with characteristic brutality, decided that
the poet was insane and needed a low diet and a cell.
Although the reception accorded to _Poems_ (1842) was generally
favorable, the publication of _The Princess_ in 1847 afforded the
critics another opportunity to lament Tennyson's inequalities. The
spirit of the review of _The Princess_ here reprinted from the _Literary
Gazette_ of August 8, 1848, is practically identical with that of the
_Athenaeum_ on January 6, 1848, but specifies more clearly the critic's
objections to the medley. It is noteworthy that Lord Tennyson made
extensive changes in subsequent editions of _The Princess_, but left
unaltered all of the passages to which the _Literary Gazette_ took
exception. The beautiful threnody _In Memoriam_ (1850) and Tennyson's
elevation to the laureateship in the same year established his position
as the leading poet of the time; but the appearance of _Maud_ in 1856
proved to be a temporary check to his popularity. A few personal friends
admired it and praised its fine lyrics; but as a dramatic narrative it
failed to please the reviews. The most interesting of the critiques
(unfortunately too long to be reprinted here) appeared in _Blackwood's
Magazine_, XLI (311-321), of September, 1855,--a forcible, well-written
article, which, incidentally, shows how much the magazine had improved
in respectability since the days of the lampooners of Byron, Shelley,
and Keats. The authorship of the article has not been disclosed, but we
know that W.E. Aytoun asked permission of the proprietor to review
Tennyson's _Maud_. (See Mrs. Oliphant's _William Blackwood and his
Sons_.) The publication of the _Idylls of the King_ (1859), turned the
tide more strongly than before in Tennyson's favor, and subsequent
fault-finding on the part of the critics was confined largely to his
dramas.
153. _Catullus_. See Catullus, II and III--(_Passer, deliciae meae
puellae_, and _Lugete, O Veneres Cupidinesque_).
153. [Greek: Eithe lyre, k. t. l.] Usually found in the remains of
Alcaeus. Thomas Moore translates it with his _Odes of Anacreon_ (LXXVII),
beginning "Would that I were a tuneful lyre," etc. Lockhart proceeds to
ridicule Tennyson for wishing to be a river, which is not what the
quoted lines state. Nor does Tennyson "ambition a bolder metamorphosis"
than his predecessors. Anacreon (Ode XXII) wishes to be a stream, as
well as a mirror, a robe, a pair of sandals and sundry other articles.
See Moore's interesting note.
155. _Non omnis moriar_. Horace, _Odes_, III, 30, 6.
156. _Tongues in trees_, etc. Shakespeare's _As You Like It_, II, 1, 17.
157. _Aristaeus_. A minor Grecian divinity, worshipped as the first to
introduce the culture of bees.
164. _Dionysius Periegetes_. Author of [Greek: periegesis tes ges], a
description of the earth in hexameters, usually published with the
scholia of Eustathius and the Latin paraphrases of Avienus and Priscian.
For the account of AEthiopia, see also Pausanias, I, 33, 4.
167. _The Rovers_. _The Rovers_ was a parody on the German drama of the
day, published in the _Anti-Jacobin_ (1798) and written by Frere,
Canning and others. It is reprinted in Charles Edmund's _Poetry of the
Anti-Jacobin_. The chorus of conspirators is at the end of Act IV.
169. _The Groves of Blarney_. An old Irish song. A version may be seen
in the _Antiquary_, I, p. 199. The quotation by Lockhart differs
somewhat from the corresponding stanza of the cited version.
170. _Corporal Trim_. In Sterne's _Tristram Shandy_.
173. _Christopher North_. John Wilson, of _Blackwood's Magazine_.
ROBERT BROWNING
The reviews of Browning's poems are singularly uninteresting from a
historical standpoint. There is usually a protest against the obscurity
of the poetry and a plea that the author should make better use of his
manifest genius. For details concerning these reviews, see the
bibliography of Browning in Nicoll and Wise's _Literary Anecdotes of the
Nineteenth Century_. The list there given is extensive, but does not
include several of the reviews mentioned below.
The early poems were so abstruse that the critics were unable to make
sport of them as they did in the case of Wordsworth, Byron, Tennyson,
and the rest; and when Browning finally deigned to write within range of
the average human intellect, that particular style of reviewing had lost
favor. His earliest publication, _Pauline_ (1832) was well received by
W.J. Fox in _Monthly Repository_, and in the _Athenaeum_. _Tait's
Edinburgh Magazine_ called it a "piece of pure bewilderment." See also
the brief notice in the _Literary Gazette_, 1833, p. 183. _Paracelsus_
(1835) had a similar experience; the reprint from the _Athenaeum_, 1835,
p. 640, is fairly characteristic of the rest, among which are the
articles in the _Monthly Repository_, 1835, p. 716; the _Christian
Remembrancer_, XX, p. 346, and the reviews written by John Forster for
the _Examiner_, 1835, p. 563, and the _New Monthly Magazine_, XLVI
(289-308).
Neither the favorable review of _Sordello_ (1840) in the _Monthly Rev._,
1840, II, p. 149, nor the partly appreciative article in the _Athenaeum_,
1840, p. 431, seems to warrant the well-known anecdotes relating the
difficulties of Douglas Jerrold and Tennyson in attempting to understand
that poem. The _Athenaeum_ gave the poet sound advice, especially in
regard to the intentional obscurity of his meaning. That this admonition
was futile may be gathered from the _Saturday Review's_ article (I, p.
69) on _Men and Women_ (1855) published fifteen years after _Sordello_.
The critic reverted to the earlier style, and produced one of the most
readable reviews of Browning. Whatever may be the final verdict yet to
be passed upon Browning's poetic achievement, the fact remains that the
contemporary reviews from first to last deplored in his work a
deliberate obscurity which was wholly unwarranted and which precluded
the universal appeal that is essential to a poet's greatness.
189. _Della Crusca of Sentimentalism_. Robert Merry (1755-1798) under
the name Della Crusca became the leader of a set of poetasters who
flourished during the poetic dearth at the end of the eighteenth century
and poured forth their rubbish until William Gifford exposed their
follies in his satires _The Baviad_ (1794) and _The Maeviad_ (1795).
189. _Alexander Smith_. A Scotch poet (1830-1867).
189. _Mystic of Bailey_. Philip James Bailey (1816-1902), best known as
the author of _Festus_, published _The Mystic_ in 1855.
192. _Hudibras Butler, etc._ Samuel Butler, author of _Hudibras_
(1663-78); Richard H. Barham, author of the _Ingoldsby Legends_ (1840);
and Thomas Hood, author of _Whims and Oddities_ (1826-27). These poets
are cited by the reviewer for their skill with unusual metres and
difficult rhymes.
INDEX
_Academy_, xlii-xliii
_Account of English Dramatic Poets_, xv
_Adonais_, by Shelley, reviewed, 129-134; 214, 217
_Advice to Young Reviewer_, xxiii
Ainsworth, Harrison, xlv
Akenside, Mark, xvi
_Alastor_, by Shelley, reviewed, 115
_Album Verses_, by Lamb, reviewed, 66-67
Alford, Dean, xxxv
Allingham, William, l
_All the Year Round_, l
_Analytical Review_, xxii
_Anti-Jacobin Review_, xxiii
Appleton, Dr. Charles, xlii
Arber, Prof. Edward, xiii
Arnold, Matthew, xxxii, xxxvi, xlii
_Athenaeum_, xxxviii-xl, liv;
on Tennyson's _Timbuctoo_, 151;
on Browning's _Paracelsus_, 187
_Athenian Mercury_, xiv
_Atlas_, xl
Austin, Mr. Alfred, xxxvi
Bagehot, Walter, xxxii, xxxiv
Barrow, Sir John, xxviii
_Battle of the Reviews_, xx-xxi
Bayle, Pierre, xiii
_Bee_, xvi
Behn, Mrs. Aphra, xv
Beloe, William, xxiii
Bentham, Jeremy, xxxi
_Bentley's Miscellany_, l
Bibliography, lvi-lix
_Bibliotheca Literaria_, xvi
_Bibliotheque Ancienne et Moderne_, xvi
_Bibliotheque Angloise_, xv
_Bibliotheque Choisee_, xvi
Blackwood, John, xlvii
Blackwood, William, xlv
_Blackwood's Magazine_, xlv-xlvii;
on Keats' _Endymion_, 141-150; 216
_Blank Verse_, by Lamb and Lloyd, reviewed, 65
Blount, Sir Thomas Pope, xiv
_Bookman_, xxxvii
Bower, Archibald, xvi
_British and Foreign Review_, xxxii
_British Critic_, xxiii;
on Landor's _Gebir_, 68
_British Librarian_, xvi
_British Magazine_, xxii, xlv
_British Review_, xxxii, 213
Brougham, Henry, xxiv, xxvi-xxvii, xxx, 210
Browning, Robert, _Paracelsus_ rev. in _Athenaeum_, 187;
_Sordello_ rev. in _Monthly Rev._, 188;
_Men and Women_ rev. in _Saturday Rev._, 189-196; 220-222
Buckingham, James Silk, xxxviii
Budgell, Eustace, xvi
Bulwer, Edward, xxx, xlv
Bunting, Mr. Percy, xxxvi
Burns, Robert, _Poems_ rev. in _Edinburgh Mag._, 13-14;
in _Critical Rev._, 15; 199-200
Byron, Lord, 47, 48;
_Hours of Idleness_ rev. in _Edinburgh Rev._, 94-100;
_Childe Harold_ rev. in _Christian Observer_, 101-114; 210-213
Campbell, Thomas, xlv
Carlyle, Thomas, xxx, xlv, xlix
Cave, Edward, xliv
_Cenci_, by Shelley, reviewed, 116-128, 214
_Censura Celebrium Authorum_, xiv
_Censura Temporum_, xv
_Childe Harold_, by Byron, reviewed, 101-114; 212-213
_Christabel_, by Coleridge, reviewed, 47-59
_Christian Observer_, xxxiii;
on Byron's _Childe Harold_, 101-114
_Christian Remembrancer_, xxxii
Christie, Jonathan Henry, xlviii
Cleghorn, James, xlvi
Cobbett, William, xxxvii
Cockney School, _Blackwood's Mag._ on, 141-150; 216-217
Colburn, Henry, xxxvii, xlv
Coleridge, John Taylor, xxix
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, xlvi;
_Christabel_ rev. in _Edinburgh Rev._, 47-59; 201-202, 204-206
Collins, Mr. John Churton, li
Colvin, Mr. Sidney, xlii, liv
_Compleat Library_, xiv
Conder, Josiah, xxxii
_Contemporary Review_, xxxv
Cook, John D., xli
Copleston, Edward, xxiii
_Cornhill Magazine_, l
Cotton, Mr. James S., xliii
Courthope, Mr. W.J., xxxvi
Courtney, Mr. W.L., xxxv
Cowper, William, _Poems_ rev. in _Critical Rev._, 10-12; 198-199
_Critic_, xxxvii
_Critical Review_, xviii-xxi, xxiii, xxv, xxxiii;
on Goldsmith's _Traveller_, 5-9;
on Cowper's _Poems_, 10-12;
on Burn's _Poems_, 15;
on _Lyrical Ballads_, 20-23
Croker, John Wilson, xxviii
Dennis, John, xv
DeQuincey, Thomas, xlviii
_De Re Poetica_, xiv
_Descriptive Sketches_, by Wordsworth, reviewed, 16-18
Dickens, Charles, l, liv
Dilke, Charles W., xxxix
Dixon, William H., xxxix
Doble, Mr. C.E., xliii
Dowden, Prof. Edward, xxxiv
_Dublin Review_, xxxii
_Dublin University Magazine_, l
D'Urfey, Thomas, xv
_Eclectic Review_, xxxii
_Edinburgh Magazine_, xliv;
on Burns' _Poems_, 13-14
_Edinburgh Review_, xxiv-xxvii, xxix-xxxi, xlvi, liv;
on Wordsworth's _Poems_, 24-46;
on Coleridge's _Christabel_, 47-59;
on Scott's _Marmion_, 70-93;
on Byron's _Hours of Idleness_, 94-100; 209-211
Eliot, George, xxxiv, xlvii
Elliott, Hon. A.R.D., xxxi
Elwin, Whitwell, xxix
Empson, William, xxx
_Endymion_, by Keats, rev. in _Quarterly Rev._, 135-140;
rev. in _Blackwood's Mag._, 141-150; 215-218
_English Review_, xxii, xxxii
Escott, Mr. T.H.S., xxxv
_Evening Walk_, by Wordsworth, reviewed, 19
_Examiner_, xxxvii
Fonblanque, Albany, xxxvii
_Foreign Quarterly Review_, xxxii
_Foreign Review_, xxxii
Forster, John, xxxvii
_Fortnightly Review_, xxxiii-xxxv
Fox, W.J., xxxiii
_Fraser's Magazine_, xlix-l
Froude, James A., l
_Gebir_, by Landor, rev. in _British Critic_, 68;
rev. in _Monthly Rev._, 69; 208
_Gentleman's Journal_, xv, xliv
_Gentleman's Magazine_, xv, xliv
Gifford, William, xxvii, xxviii
Goldsmith, Oliver, xviii, xxi, xxii, xlv;
_The Traveller_ rev. in _Critical Rev._, 5-9, 197, 198
Grant, Charles, 108
Gray, Thomas, _Odes_ rev. in _Monthly Rev._, 1-4; 197-198
Green, John Richards, xxiii
Griffiths, Ralph, xvii, xviii, xx
Hallam, Henry, xxx
Hamilton, Sir William, xxx
Harris, Mr. Frank, xxxv, xli
Harwood, Mr. Philip, xli
Hazlitt, William, 204-205
Hervey, Thomas K., xxxix
Hind, Mr. C. Lewis, xliii
_Historia Literaria_, xvi
_History of Learning_, xiv
_History of the Works of the Learned_, xv, xvi
Hodge, Mr. Harold, xli
Hood, Thomas, xlviii
Hook, Theodore, xlv
Horne, Richard Hengist, xxxiii
Horner, Francis, xxiv, xxv
_Hours of Idleness_, by Byron, reviewed, 94-100; 210-212
_Household Words_, l
Hume, David, 105
Hunt, Leigh, xxxiii, xxxvii, 135, 136, 142
Hutton, Richard Holt, xxxii, xl
Introduction, xiii-lv
Jebb, Samuel, xvi
Jeffrey, Francis, xxiv-xxvi, xxix, xlviii, 203, 206, 209-210
Jerdan, William, xxxvii, xxxix
Johnson, Samuel, xxi, xxii, 198
_Journal des Savans_, xiii, xiv, xxi
Keats, John, _Endymion_, reviewed in _Quarterly Rev._, 135-140;
in _Blackwood's Mag._, 141-150; 152, 215-218
Kenrick, William, xx, xxi, xxii
Kingsley, Charles, l
Knowles, Mr. James, xxxv, xxxvi
Lamb, Charles, xlviii;
_Blank Verse_ rev. in _Monthly Rev._, 65;
_Album-Verses_ rev. in _Literary Gazette_, 66-67; 207-208
Landor, Walter Savage, _Gebir_ rev. in _British Critic_, 68;
in _Monthly Rev._, 69; 208
Langbaine, Gerald, xv
Le Clerc, Daniel, xvi
Le Clerc, Jean, xiv, xvi
Lewes, George Henry, xxxiv
Lewis, Sir George Cornewall, xxx
_Literary Chronicle_, xxxviii
_Literary Gazette_, xxxvii-xxxix;
on Lamb's _Album-Verses_, 66-67;
on Shelley's _Adonais_, 129-134;
on Tennyson's _The Princess_, 176-186; 207-208
_Literary Journal_, xvi
_Literary Magazine_, xvi, xxii
Lloyd, Charles, _Blank Verse_, rev. in _Monthly Rev._, 65
Lloyd, H.E., xxxvii
Lockhart, John Gibson, xxii, xxxi, 216, 218-219
_London Magazine_, xliv, xlvii-xlviii;
on Shelley's _Cenci_, 116-128
_London Quarterly Review_, xxxii
_London Review_, xxii, xxxi
_Longman's Magazine_, l
Lowth, Bishop, xvi
_Lyrical Ballads_, by Wordsworth, reviewed, 20-23; 201-203
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, xxix-xxx
MacColl, Mr. Norman, xxxix
Maclise, Daniel, xlix
_Macmillan's Magazine_, l