[78] The Apology, 110–111.
[79] English Bards, 429.
[80] The Apology, 44.
[81] English Bards, 71.
[82] Gentle Alterative.
[83] Baviad, 200–201.
[84] It is curious that Byron’s views on poetry were not very different from those held by Jeffrey. Both men believed in maintaining the common-sense traditions of the eighteenth century.
[85] “There can be no worse sign for the taste of the times than the depreciation of Pope” (Letters, v, 559).
[86] W. Tooke, in his edition of Churchill’s Works (1804), expresses one phase of contemporary opinion in speaking of “the simplicity of a later school of poetry, the spawn of the lakes, consisting of a mawkish combination of the nonsense verse of the nursery with the rhodomontade of German Mysticism and Transcendentalism” (i., 189).
[87] Epistles to Pope, ii., 165.