Monthly Review
,—then the leading literary organ,—and became widely popular.
While in the
Royal George
, Falconer contrived to find time for his poetical studies. Retiring sometimes from his messmates, into a small space between the cable-trees and the ship's side, he wrote his Ode on
the Duke of York's Second Departure from England, as Rear-Admiral
. This poem was severely criticised in the
Critical Review
. It has certainly much pomp, and thundering sound of language and versification, but wants the genuine Pindaric inspiration.
At the peace of 1763 the