ABSTRACT
Wordsworth, River Duddon (1820); Monthly Review, 2nd Series, XCIII (Oct. 1820), 132–143. Wordsworth’s “improvement” is noted by the reviewer with extra satisfaction because he feels that he can take some credit, however indirect, for it. The critical basis of the Monthly’s attacks on Wordsworth’s earlier poems can be found in the allusion (p. 136 footnote) to Dr. Johnson’s dictum that the artist or poet should not number the streaks of the tulip.
