ABSTRACT
Hunt, Story of Rimini (1816); review by John Gibson Lockhart, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, II (Nov. 1817), 194-201. Lockhart’s wide knowledge of literature and sensitivity to its themes are illustrated in his remarks on the incest theme in Western literature. Another mark is his excellent, apparently original, blank-verse translation (p. 200) of the Paolo and Francesca episode from the Inferno, Canto V. Lockhart’s substantive critical points on The Story of Rimini were so well taken that Hunt in his later revisions of the poem – particularly for his Poetical Works (1832) – corrected it to meet these objections. “Archibald the Grim” (p. 198) was Archibald, 3rd Earl of Douglas (c. 1325-c. 1400).
