ABSTRACT
Wordsworth, Descriptive Sketches (1793); Analytical Review, XV (March 1793), 294–296. The reviewer approves stilted language and stereotyped images plundered from writers like Gray and Donne, but he criticizes the most powerful and original image he quotes as “extravagant.”
Art. xi. Descriptive Sketches. In Verse. Taken during a Pedestrian Tour in the Italian, Grison, Swiss, and Savoyard Alps, By W. Wordsworth, b. a. of St. John’s, Cambridge. 4to. 55 Pages. Pricé 3s. Johnson. 1793.
