ABSTRACT
Jeffrey (1773-1850) was a founder and first editor of the Edinburgh Review. Southey expressed strong dissatisfaction with this notable attack upon Thalaba (see Introduction, p. 7). When he first met Jeffrey in 1805 he described him as ‘a man of ready wit, no taste and so little knowledge that it would have been scarcely inaccurate to have said none’ (Curry, i, pp. 407-8). In treating Southey as a major representative of a new movement in poetry, however, Jeffrey’s review helped to further his reputation by bringing him to the notice of a wider public.
