ABSTRACT
Hunt, Foliage (1818); review by ?John Taylor Coleridge, Quarterly Review, XVIII (Jan. 1818), 324–335. [Issue appeared June 1818.] Though this review, which upset both Hunt and Shelley very much, has been attributed to Croker, the footnote on page 327, indicating that the author was at Eton with Shelley, points to John Taylor Coleridge, who certainly reviewed The Revolt of Islam. Several remarks (see pp. 327–329) are directed at Shelley more than at Hunt, though they are ostensibly directed at Hunt’s two sonnets “To Percy Shelley” included in Foliage, one of which is quoted on pages 326–327. The “Dorothea” (p. 334) was Captain David Buchan’s flag ship in his expedition seeking the Northwest Passage in 1818. (Sir John Franklin commanded the “Trent,” the other ship in the expedition.)
