ABSTRACT
We have said that the present volumes contain no poems which will bear a comparison with the best of his Lyrical Ballads. Yet there are a few, which though not free from affectation would do credit to a poet of less acknowledged abilities. We here and there discover symptoms of reason and judgment, which we gladly hail as a proof that his mind is not yet irrecoverably lost in the vortex of false taste and puerile conceit.
