ABSTRACT

This is a very miscellaneous volume, consisting of poetry and prose, biographical sketches, critical remarks, and lastly, of a topographical description of the country of the Lakes. The poem from which the work is named, is neither long nor very interesting. It amounts to between thirty and forty stanzas, some of which are extremely beautiful; but as a whole, it has nothing striking, either in design or effect. The imagination of the author appears to have had no other guide than the localities with which the Duddon is connected; on which account a foot-path, or a