Wordsworth, The Excursion, The White Doe of Rylstone, and [Collected edition, 2 vols.]

Wordsworth, Poems [Collected Edition] (1815), The Excursion (1814), and White Doe of Rylstone (1815); Augustan Review, I (Aug. 1815), 343–356. This survey of Wordsworth’s collected poetry offers the most pedestrian section – by – section summary of a poet’s work to be found outside Francis Jeffrey’s articles in the Edinburgh Review. On page 350 the reviewer even corrects errata as he plods along. In keeping with the general level of his critical remarks is his final judgment that Wordsworth might become “a highly respectable Essayist.”