ditor, not only from the
connection of kindred, but on account of its still and
sequestered situation, on a lone hill that overhangs the Bristol
Channel.

"More ought perhaps to be said--but it is very difficult to
proceed. From the earliest years of this extraordinary young
man, his premature abilities were not more conspicuous than an
almost faultless disposition, sustained by a more calm
self-command than has often been witnessed in that season of
life. The sweetness of temper which distinguished his childhood,
became with the advance of manhood a habitual benevolence, and
ultimately ripened into that exalted principle of love towards
God and man, which animated and almost absorbed his soul during
the latter period of his life, and to which most of the
following compositions bear such emphatic testimony. He seemed
to tread the earth as a spirit from some better world; and in
bowing to the mysterious will which has in mercy removed him,
perfected by so short a trial, and passing over the bridge which
separates the seen from the unseen life, in a moment, and, as we
may believe, without a moment's pang, we must feel not only the
bereavement of those to whom he was dear, but the loss which
mankind have sustained by the withdrawing of such a light.

"A considerable portion of the poetry contained in this volume
was printed in the year 1830, and was intended by the author to
be published together with the poems of his intimate friend, Mr.
Alfred Tennyson. They were however withheld from publication at
the request of the Editor. The poem of Timbuctoo was written for
the University prize in 1829, which it did not obtain.
Notwithstanding its too great obscurity, the subject itself
being hardly indicated, and the extremely hyperbolical
importance which the author's brilliant fancy has attached to a
nest of barbarians, no one can avoid admiring the grandeur of
his conceptions, and the deep philosophy upon which he has built
the scheme of his poem. This is however by no means the most
pleasing of his compositions. It is in the profound reflection,
the melancholy tenderness, and the religious sanctity of other
effusions that a lasting charm will be found. A commonplace
subject, such as those announced for academical prizes generally
are, was incapable of exciting a mind which,