ABSTRACT
First published in Blackwood’s, XLVIII, October 1840, pp. 508–21. Reprinted in F, Historical and Critical Essays (ii) (1853). A revised version appeared in SGG, XI, Critical Suggestions on Style and Rhetoric (1859). There is no known manuscript.
For a discussion of the four ‘Style’ articles as a group, see headnote, above, pp. 3–4.
