ABSTRACT
First published in Blackwood’s, December 1841, pp. 747–59. Reprinted in F, Historical and Critical Essays (i), 1853. A revised version appeared in SGG, V, Sketches, Critical and Biographic, 1857. There is one manuscript, corrected page proof of pp. 337–8 of SGG, V, in the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library. It has no substantive variants. For a discussion of the article in context, see head-note, above, p. 3.
