Characteristics Of The Lake Poets And Their Works

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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LAKE POETS AND THEIR WORKS

Francis Jeffrey

SOURCE: A review of Thalaba, the Destroyer, in The Edinburgh Review, Vol. I, No. I, October, 1802, pp. 63-83.

[In the following excerpt, Jeffrey identifies Southey as one of a "sect of poets" that included Wordsworth and Coleridge, and offers a harsh assessment of this group and its aim to focus on "ordinary" language and themes.]

Poetry has this much, at least, in common with religion, that its standards were fixed long ago, by certain inspired writers, whose...

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