Wordsworth, The River Duddon

Wordsworth, The River Duddon (1820); Eclectic Review, 2nd Series, XIV (Aug. 1820), 170–184. The anonymous reviewer is the same who reviewed Peter Bell and The Waggoner, mentioning that review as his (p. 172). But the more general remarks on previous Eclectic reviews of Wordsworth (p. 183) — one of which is known to be by Montgomery, one by Conder, and one by an unidentified author — do not solve the problem of authorship; rather they suggest an insertion by Conder, the editor, in the interest of giving the reader a more balanced judgment of Wordsworth’s work. Note that the reviewer rightly questions the tone of Wordsworth’s retelling of Chaucer’s “Prioress’s Tale.”