Coleridge, Christabel [etc.]

Coleridge, Christabel [etc.] (1816); Augustan Review, III (July 1816), 14–24. The dullness of this reviewer is evident from the anecdote with which he opens his article, for he is unaware that it reflects not on Coleridge but on himself and others “who valued themselves not a little on their critical skill.” On page 18 he cites Wordsworth’s “Idiot Boy” as a poem by Coleridge, and on that and the following page he accuses Coleridge of imitating Byron in a passage that Byron had already openly admitted taking from Christabel.