My “honorable mention” review for the Astral Codex Ten book review contest

(Big thanks to Astral Codex Ten!)

The early nineteenth century was a real bonanza time for English poetry, but by 1822, things were beginning to wind down. Keats was dead, and Shelley would die midway through the year. Blake had finished his last and most ambitious book. Coleridge had long stopped producing verse and Wordsworth was past his prime, if not yet in his dotage. Byron still had some fire in him, but when he completed Vision of Judgment in late 1821, his best work was behind him. Englis...