ABSTRACT
Wordsworth, The Waggoner (1819); Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, V (June 1819), 332–334. This review is, presumably, also by Wilson or at least by the same person who reviewed Peter Bell. No passages in this review could be construed as sly hits at Wordsworth; the tone is as positive as that of any review of The Waggoner. Yet by this time Wordsworth was so indignant over the attack on his Letter to a Friend of Burns that he would not permit Black-wood’s at Rydal Mount. Sara Hutchinson wrote to Thomas Monkhouse on July 25, 1819: “we females have a great curiosity to see the Reviews &c of Wms Poems &c in Blackwood’s Magazine; but as Wm will not suffer it to come into the house with his knowledge we must smuggle it —
