Chapter II: Between Coleridge and Arnold

The English Critics of 1830-60 472

Wilson 472

Strange medley of his criticism 473

The _Homer_ and the other larger critical 473
collections

The _Spenser_ 474

The _Specimens of British Critics_ 475

_Dies Boreales_ 476

Faults in all 476

And in the republished work 477

De Quincey: his anomalies 478

And perversities as a critic 479

In regard to all literatures 480

Their causes 480

The _Rhetoric_ and the _Style_ 481

His compensations 482

Lockhart 483

Difficulty of appraising his criticism 483

The _Tennyson_ review 483

On Coleridge, Burns, Scott, and Hook 484

His general critical character 485

Hartley Coleridge 485

Forlorn condition of his criticism 485

Its quality 486

Defects 486

And examples 487

Maginn 487

His parody-criticisms 488

And more serious efforts 488

Macaulay 490
His exceptional competence in some ways 490
The early articles 490
His drawbacks 490
The practical choking of the good seed 491
His literary surveys in the _Letters_ 492
His confession 493
The _Essays_ 493
Similar dwindling in Carlyle 495
The earlier _Essays_ 497
The later 497
The attitude of the _Latter-day Pamphlets_ 498
The conclusion of this matter 499
Thackeray 500
His one critical weakness 500
And excellence 501
_Blackwood_ in 1849 on Tennyson 502
George Brimley 504
His Essay on Tennyson 505
His other work 507
His intrinsic and chronological importance 508
“Gyas and Cloanthus” 508
Milman, Croker, Hayward 509
Sydney Smith, Senior, Helps 509
Elwin, Lancaster, Hannay 510
Dallas 511
The _Poetics_ 511
_The Gay Science_ 512
Others: J. S. Mill 514