They are written in a pleasing style, and with a liberal and
charitable spirit as to religious opinions. Since they appeared, history
has developed new material and established more exacting canons, and the
studies of later writers have already superseded these pleasing works.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
WORDSWORTH, AND THE LAKE SCHOOL.
The New School. William Wordsworth. Poetical Canons. The Excursion and
Sonnets. An Estimate. Robert Southey. His Writings. Historical Value.
S. T. Coleridge. Early Life. His Helplessness. Hartley and H. N.
Coleridge.
THE NEW SCHOOL.
In the beginning of the year 1820 George III. died, after a very long--but
in part nominal--reign of fifty-nine years, during a large portion of
which he was the victim of insanity, while his son, afterwards George IV.,
administered the regency of the kingdom.
George III. did little, either by example or by generosity, to foster
literary culture: his son, while nominally encouraging authors, did much
to injure the tone of letters in his day.
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