"[Charles] Lamb must have spoken dismissively of [Samuel] Daniel's poem The History of the Civil War, but Coleridge, when he read it through [in Lamb's copy of Daniel's Poetical Works], thought quite well of it, so he annotated it to try to win Lamb over ... [writing]: "'Dear Charles, I think more highly, far more, of the 'Civil Wars,' than you seemed to do (on Monday night, Feb. 9th 1808) -- the Verse does not Teize me; and all the while I am reading it, I cannot but fancy a plain England-loving English Country Gentleman, with only some dozen Books in his whole Library ...'"