ABSTRACT
Though W. G.’s ‘Introduction’ declares a truce with his political enemies, his ‘Notes’ have no such inhibitions, revealing many of Gifford’s Tory prejudices in praising the divine right of kings and attacking eminent Whigs (Brougham and Parr), heterodox divines (Edward Irving), dangerous poetical innovators (Coleridge) and ‘cockney’ poets (Procter). The Quarterly’s hobby horses are trotted out in attacks on the likes of Cobbett and Hazlitt, and Gifford’s prejudices aired in his description of the American Washington Irving as a ‘barbarian’.
