ABSTRACT
Wordsworth, Convention of Cintra (1809); review by Henry Crabb Robinson, London Review, II (Nov. 1809), 231–275. Robinson’s review, like Wordsworth’s pamphlet, emphasizes national traditions and the unity of “a people,” rich and poor. Though the French character comes in for some negative judgments (p. 235), the implication of the Spanish uprising remains that the resources of common people everywhere are unpredictably great. Notice Robinson’s rather early emphasis on a “Spirit of the Age” and his German authority for the concept (pp. 237 ff.).
