ABSTRACT
From Champion, 16 November, 1817, 365–8. It is suggested plausibly (in The Romantics Reviewed, Part A, i, 274) that the reviewer was Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795–1854), already a published poet, one of Charles Lamb’s friends, and later a successful dramatist and a judge. On the other hand Talfourd’s appreciation of both Coleridge and his poetry seems much more positive in his attested reminiscences (for which see Coleridge the Talker, 350–4 and 463–4).
