ABSTRACT
Wordsworth, The Waggoner (1819); British Critic, 2nd Series, XII (Nov. 1819), 464479. The Minerva Press (p. 465) published Gothic novels and other sensational literature in the late 18th and early 19th century. Such an allusion, combined with the reviewer’s system of orthography (rather archaic by this date), suggest that he was not much younger than Wordsworth and Coleridge. On page 476, the “unfortunate” John Wall Callcott (1766–1821) was a musician and composer of catches and glees, who was insane in his later years.
