ABSTRACT

In the eighteen-twenties a number of poets appeared of whom some died carly and some, discouraged, subsided into silence, while others continued to write for many years. There was abundant talent in most of them and two possessed powers beyond their actual achievement; but none was a poet of anywhere near the first order. They do not divide the Romantic Period, narrowly so called, from the Victorian, but illustrate the continuity of the romantic tradition. They are not a very homogeneous group, but several among them are near allied and there are loose links among the rest.