Note 86 — Chapter IV · “ENGLISH BARDS, AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS”
Reading edition
W. Tooke, in his edition of Churchill’s Works (1804), expresses one phase of contemporary opinion in speaking of “the simplicity of a later school of poetry, the spawn of the lakes, consisting of a mawkish combination of the nonsense verse of the nursery with the rhodomontade of German Mysticism and Transcendentalism” (i., 189).