Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), December 27, 1845, vol. 2, no. 25, p. ???, col. ?

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Appleton's Literary Miscellany. Nos. 6 and 7. Sketches of Modern Literature and Eminent Literary Men: Being a Gallery of Literary Portraits. By GEORGE GILFILLAN. Reprinted entire from the London Edition. New York: D. Appleton & Co.

This is in all respects a valuable work — containing some of the most discriminative criticism we have ever read. We refer especially to a parallel between Shelley and Byron. The portraits are those of Shelley, Jeffrey, Godwin, Hazlitt, Rob. Hall, Chalmers, Carlyle, De Quincy, John Foster, Wilson, Edward Landor, Campbell, Brougham, Coleridge, Emerson, Worsdworth, Pollok, Lamb, Cunningham, Elliott, Keats, Macaulay, Aird, Southey, and Lockhart.

Perhaps the most original and judicious of these sketches is that of Godwin — a very remarkable man, not even yet thoroughly understood.