ABSTRACT
Coleridge, Biogmphia Literaria (1817); review by William Hazlitt and Francis Jeffrey, Edinburgh Review, XXVIII (Aug. 1817), 488-515. The most substantive part of this review is Hazlitt’s disquisition on Burke (pp. 503-507); the most interesting section, perhaps, is Jeffrey’s long footnote (pp. 507-512) in answer to Coleridge’s personal attack on him, with its assertion (p. 510) that Jeffrey did not review Christabel. At the end of the note, however, he says that he made “some retrenchments and verbal alterations” to (Hazlitt’s) review of The Statesman’s Manual, and this leaves open the possibility that Jeffrey had revised the review of Christabel to the extent that it became his own creation.
