ABSTRACT
First published in Blackwood’s Magazine XX, February 1827, pp. 199–213. Reprinted in F, Miscellaneous Essays, 1851. A revised version appeared in SGG IV, Miscellanies (ii), 1854. There is no known manuscript. A few draft revisions are in MS A: a copy of Miscellaneous Essays (Boston, 1851) in the Wordsworth Library, Grasmere.
