John Henry Newman on Southey's epics, 22 March 1850

From a letter to J. M. Capes. Reprinted from The Letters and Journals of John Henry Newman, ed. C. S. Dessain, xiii, pp. 449–50. Newman is commenting upon a review of Southey’s Life and Correspondence submitted for the Rambler. He referred again to ‘Southey’s beautiful poem of Thalaba’ in his Apologia.