ABSTRACT
Wordsworth, Poems (1807); re view by Lucy Aikin, Annual Review, VI (1808), 521–529. The reference on pages 522–523 is to The Gamester (1753), a play by Edward Moore; the “Theban eagle” (p. 523) is Pindar, whose “soarings” are his odes. The hostile tone of the review shows a critic of the eighteenth-century school resisting Wordsworth’s growing intro spectiveness.
