Wordsworth also thought the
Pleasures of Hope
"strangely over-rated; its fine words and sounding lines please the generality of readers, who never stop to ask themselves the meaning of a passage."
Byron, who calls Campbell "a warm-hearted and honest man," thought that his
"'Lochiel' and 'Mariners' are spirit-stirring productions; his Gertrude of Wyoming is beautiful; and some of the episodes in his Pleasures of Hope pleased me so much that I know them by heart"
(Lady Blessington's
Conversations with Lord Byron
, p. 353).
George Ticknor, who met Campbell in 1815 (
Life