1833 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

Rev. William Mason

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 3 January 1833; in Table Talk (1884) 184.

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I cannot bring myself to think much of Mason's poetry. I may be wrong; but all those passages in the Caractarus which we learn to admire at school, now seem to me one continued falsetto.