ABSTRACT
Shelley, Adonais (1821); review by George Croly, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, X (Dec. 1821), 696–700. Perhaps Lockhart drew back from reviewing a poem by Shelley on the reviewers’ mistreatment of Keats. After a quarrel between Lockhart and John Scott of the London Magazine (q.v.), Scott had died in a duel with Lockhart’s friend J. H. Christie. And so, rather than a chastened man of great critical insight writing this important review, we find a man of limited talent and limitless energy and ambition trying to make his reputation by surpassing “Z” in satire but succeeding only in out-doing him in cruelty.
