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Francis Jeffrey : review of Thalaba

'[Wordsworth's] first mention of ... [Francis Jeffrey, review of Robert Southey, Thalaba, in the Edinburgh Review 1 (Oct 1802)] comes in a letter of Jan. 1804 to [John] Thelwall ... "That review of Thalaba I never read entirely, having only seen it in a Country Bookseller's shop, who would not permit me to cut open the Leaves, as he only had it upon trial."'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Francis Jeffrey : review of Byron, The Corsair and The Bride of Abydos

Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814: 'I have seen the E[dinburgh] R[eview] and the compliment -- which Rogers says -- "Scott and Campbell won't like" kind Soul!'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Francis Jeffrey : unknown

Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 June 1822: 'I have read the recent article of Jeffrey in a faithful transcription of the impartial Galignani.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Print: Newspaper

  

Jeffrey : Article IX

'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "Edinr reviews" - and if you honour the maxim, audi alteram partem [hear the other side], to sundry delicious speculations from the pen of Mr Southey, wherein these points are handled at considerable length in the "Quarterly review".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Jeffrey : Article X

'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "Edinr reviews" - and if you honour the maxim, audi alteram partem [hear the other side], to sundry delicious speculations from the pen of Mr Southey, wherein these points are handled at considerable length in the "Quarterly review".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Francis Jeffrey : Edinburgh Review

'I have seen the last number of the Edinr review at Mount-annan. I regret, with you, that Jeffrey should bestow so much of his time on Politics; and I rejoice in the prospect [(for] this is one of the advantages of Peace!) that in a short [time] he will not have this in his power. He must be an extra-ordinary man. No subject however hackneyed, but he has the art of extracting some new thought out of it. The introduction to the Critiq[ue] on Byron is in my opinion admirable?so acute so philosophical: - None but a man of keen penetration, and deep research could have written such a thing - Even the present state of Europe is interesting in his hands.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Francis Jeffrey : [ review of 'Essays on the superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland: to which are added, translations from the Gaelic...' by Anne Grant]

'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all things, I admire Mr Jeffrey's review of it, and also a review of Ford's plays, in which latter there are some beautiful pieces of writing, especially in "The Broken Heart". I am sorry they are disgraced with such coarseness. It does not do to tear off the drapery of a moral imagination, and expose our naked and shivering nature. But certainly those powerful pictures of the passions that were exhibitied in former days, make a good contrast to the tameness of modern performances. I do not like "Love's Melancholy" at all. The character of Penthea in "The Broken Heart" is very fine; but I could not see the advantages of making Calantha dance on when all her friends are dead'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Francis Jeffrey : [ review of new edition of Ford's plays]

'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all things, I admire Mr Jeffrey's review of it, and also a review of Ford's plays, in which latter there are some beautiful pieces of writing, especially in "The Broken Heart". I am sorry they are disgraced with such coarseness. It does not do to tear off the drapery of a moral imagination, and expose our naked and shivering nature. But certainly those powerful pictures of the passions that were exhibitied in former days, make a good contrast to the tameness of modern performances. I do not like "Love's Melancholy" at all. The character of Penthea in "The Broken Heart" is very fine; but I could not see the advantages of making Calantha dance on when all her friends are dead'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bury      Print: Serial / periodical

  

George Lewis (Louis) Becke (and Walter Jeffrey) : A First Fleet Family

' I have read "The First Fleet Family"with interest tempered by disappointment.' Thereafter follow two pages of largely negative criticism.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

  

Francis Jeffrey : [review of The Excursion in The Edinburgh Review]

'I suppose you have heard what a crushing review [Jeffrey] has given [Wordsworth]. I still found him persisting in his first asseveration that it was heavy but what was my pleasure to find he had only got to the 17 division I assured him he had the marrow of the thing to come at as yet'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

  

Francis Jeffrey : [review of Crabbe's 'Tales from the Hall']

'[Critics] have been as graciously disposed towards me as I could expect. The Edinborough more particularly who have praised me into some Reputation for writing Lyrical Verses, that is to say, Songs, a Talent with which I did not previously flatter myself that I was I possession of & it is marvelous how much even acute Readers are led & influenced by these periodical Critics who dictate to us all more than perhaps any of us are willing to allow.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Francis Jeffrey : Edinburgh Review: Combinations of Workmen

'Read Jeffrey's neat and well intended address to the Mechanics upon their combinations.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott      

 

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