ABSTRACT

This unsigned review is attributed to William Hazlitt (Howe, xix, 338). Hazlitt (1778–1830), himself one of the major writers of the period, knew Coleridge personally. His early admiration was replaced by a bitterly expressed hostility towards what seemed to him to be a change in Coleridge’s political outlook. The best account of the relationship is to be found in Herschel Baker’s William Hazlitt, Cambridge, Mass. 1962, 356–64.