ABSTRACT
Wordsworth, Descriptive Sketches (1793); Critical Review, 2nd Series, VIII (Aug. 1793), 472-474. This review, like Thomas Holcroft’s notices in the Monthly Review, scores Wordsworth’s vagueness and artificiality. Wordsworth, who later attacked the same faults in other eighteenth-century poetry, seems to have profited from the strictures of his early reviewers.
