Cobwebs of criticismA review of the first reviewers of the 'Lake', 'Satanic', and 'Cockney' schools . SHELLEY. THAT Shelley did not regard himself as amember of any school of poets is obviousenough in all references to himself in his publishedcorrespondence; that he did not think he could beunderstood to have anything in common with Keatsis seen in his preface to Adonais, and that he believedhe gravitated by force of sympathy much closer to theLake School, as represented by Coleridge, than to theCockney School, as represented by Hunt, is also suffi-ciently obvious. In all this he was largely,
Cobwebs of criticismA review of the first reviewers of the 'Lake', 'Satanic', and 'Cockney' schools . SHELLEY. THAT Shelley did not regard himself as amember of any school of poets is obviousenough in all references to himself in his publishedcorrespondence; that he did not think he could beunderstood to have anything in common with Keatsis seen in his preface to Adonais, and that he believedhe gravitated by force of sympathy much closer to theLake School, as represented by Coleridge, than to theCockney School, as represented by Hunt, is also suffi-ciently obvious. In all this he was largely, though notentirely right, but whether he was right or wrong, inhis assurance of poetic isolation does not here con-cern us. In the eyes of contemporary critics he wasa cockney, and that is the sole point of interest to usnow. We did not hesitate to reproduce the personalcharges made against Leigh Hunt, but we took carethat our selection should be in great part from themore presentable of many prurient libels. No onenow accredits the imputation that the private life ofHunt himself was reflected in
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