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