"As friends to the cause of literature, we have thought proper not to disguise our opinion of his powers, that we might alter his determination, and lead him once more to the Castalian fount."
The Anti-Jacobin Review
(December, 1807, pp. 407, 408) says that the poems
"exhibit strong proofs of genius, accompanied by a lively but chastened imagination, a classical taste, and a benevolent heart."
The Eclectic Review
(vol. iii. part ii. pp. 989-993) begins its review thus: