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A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe, from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 3 (of 3), Modern criticism

Note 897 — Chapter II · BETWEEN COLERIDGE AND ARNOLD.

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As I am not speaking enfarinhadomente about Wilson’s faults, I may fairly protest against an exaggeration of them. It is surely unlucky of Mr Buxton Forman (Keats’ Letters, i. 46, ed. 1900) to talk of Blackwood’s Magazine having “a monopoly of frowsy and unsavoury personal gibes” in “the possession of Christopher North,” when he had himself a few papers earlier cited Hazlitt’s almost Bedlamite Billingsgate against Southey in the Examiner.

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