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On reading this little book, {61} and considering all the exaggerated praise and exaggerated blame which have been lavished on it, we could not help falling into many thoughts about the history of English poetry for the last forty years, and about its future destiny.
{61} "Poems," by Alexander Smith. London: Bogue. 1853. Fraser's Magazine, October, 1853.