Robert Southey by Lionel Madden

Author:Lionel Madden [Madden, Lionel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781134782147
Publisher: TaylorFrancis
Published: 2022-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

81 Unsigned notice, New Monthly Magazine, June 1817, vii, 444

DOI: 10.4324/9780203197271-81

One of the few defences of Southey.

The argumentum ad hominem 1 was never more successfully applied than in this admirable epistle, and upon the whole the public may be grateful to the Member for Norwich in having been the occasion of so spirited an exposition. The poet-laureat has satisfactorily vindicated himself from the illiberal charges of apostacy; and he has done it with candour, in acknowledging the youthful errors which he held in common with numbers who have since seen reason to change their opinions on political subjects. We should gladly have made extracts from Mr. Southey, particularly of those parts which illustrate his own biography, did not the length of the passages lay a restraint upon our inclination in this respect: and we could not with propriety attempt any thing like an abridgment.

1 ‘Argument directed at the character of the man’.

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