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, during the period of his editorship. An excellent judge of verse, he collected
Specimens of the British Poets
(1819), to which he added a valuable essay on poetry and short biographies. His
Theodoric
(1824),
Pilgrim of Glencoe
(1842), and Lives of Mrs. Siddons, Petrarch, and Shakespeare added nothing to his reputation.
The judgment of contemporary poets in the main agreed with Coleridge's estimate of Campbell's work.
"There are some of Campbell's lyrics," said Rogers (Table-Talk, etc., pp. 254, 255), which will never die. His Pleasures of Hope is no great favourite with me. The feeling throughout his Gertrude is very beautiful."