ABSTRACT
The ‘wandering bards’, ‘Coleridge, Southey and Co.’ whom in 1798 the Anti-Jacobin represented as moving ‘in sweet accord of harmony and love’ and tuning all their ‘mystic harps to praise Lepaux’, the French Theo-philanthropist, are still consentaneous in their movements but their harps are tuned to another theme, the demerits of the Unitarians. These hard-headed Christians have little liking for fiction in the articles of their faith, and none for ‘mystic’ rant, and hence they are singled out by the Lake poets for reprobation. It may be an amusing speculation whether the praise or the censure of these mystics will be accounted honourable half a century hence.
