ABSTRACT

Wordsworth, River Duddon (1820); British Critic, 2nd Series, XV (Feb. 1821), 113–135. The anonymous reviewer continues his series, including a quotation from a poem to Christopher Wordsworth, “the present Master of Trinity College,” as “a great favorite” (p. 120). The critic devotes some fine paragraphs (pp. 121–124) to praise and analysis of Wordsworth’s versification, only to turn—in sectarian fashion—to a castigation of the lack of doctrinal purity in the “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” (pp. 130–131).