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National Library of Scotland, MS 3881. Previously published: Charles Cuthbert Southey (ed.), Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, 6 vols (London, 1849–1850), III, pp. 314–317.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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You will have thought me very remiss in not thanking you sooner for the Vision,xx I opened it on the spot, in xxxx to & discovered
that a letter to Polwhele
It is remarkable that three poets should at once have been employed upon Roderick.high
poetry that I have ever seen. Roderick is also the prominent personage of my own Pelayo,xx our representations
are so totally different as to form a perfect contrast, yet each so fitted to the temper of in which the confession is made,
that it might be sworn, if you had chosen my point of time you would have written as I have done, & that if I had written of the
unrepentant king I should have conceived of him exactly in like yourself. I copy my own lines, because I think you will be
gratified at seeing a parallel passage which never can be produced except to the honour of both
I see but little of Gifford in town, because he was on the
point of taking wing for the Isle of Wight when I arrived. The review seems to have shaken the credit of the Edinburgh, & might
shake it still more.xx which he
has handled the most unfairly, & so to treat them as to force a comparison which must end in our favour. I am about to do this upon
the question of Bell & Lancaster, – a question on which Brougham has grossly committed
himself.
You may well suppose that three months idleness has brought upon me a heavy accumulation of business. Meantime good
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