[Footnote 298:  Quarterly Review, May, 1809.]

  [Footnote 299:  Familiar Letters, Vol.  I, p. 341.]

  [Footnote 300:  Journal, Vol.  I, p. 9.]

  [Footnote 301:  Lockhart, Vol.  V, p. 70.]

  [Footnote 302:  Ibid., Vol.  II, p. 306.]

[Footnote 303:  Byron said, “Crabbe’s the man, but he has got a coarse and impracticable subject.” (Moore’s Life and Letters of Byron, Vol.  IV, pp. 63-4.) Leslie Stephen remarks that Crabbe “was admired by Byron in his rather wayward mood of Pope-worship, as the last representative of the legitimate school.” (English Literature and Society in the 18th Century, p. 207.)]

  [Footnote 304:  Lockhart, Vol.  III, p. 197.]

[Footnote 305:  The reader will at once recall the ingenuous remark of Sophia Scott when she was asked, shortly after its appearance, how she liked The Lady of the Lake.  She said, “Oh, I have not read it; Papa says there’s nothing so bad for young people as reading bad poetry.” (Lockhart, Vol.  II, p. 130.  See also the Life of Irving, Vol.  I, p. 444.)]

  [Footnote 306:  Familiar Letters, Vol.  II, p. 94.]

  [Footnote 307:  Correspondence of C.K.  Sharpe, Vol.  I, p. 353.]

[Footnote 308:  See Marmion, introduction to Canto III, and other passages noted by Adolphus in the Letters to Heber, p. 295.  See also Familiar Letters, Vol.  I, p. 198, and the passage in Lockhart (Vol.  II, p. 132), in which James Ballantyne reports Scott as saying to him, “If you wish to speak of a real poet, Joanna Baillie is now the highest genius of our country.”]

  [Footnote 309:  Lockhart, Vol.  III, p. 306.]

  [Footnote 310:  Lockhart, Vol.  V, p. 359; also Vol.  I, p. 255; and
  Constable’s Correspondence, Vol.  III, p. 300.]

  [Footnote 311:  Lockhart, Vol.  IV, p. 117.]

  [Footnote 312:  Ibid., Vol.  V, p. 448.]

  [Footnote 313:  Ibid., Vol.  II, p. 14.]

  [Footnote 314:  Forster, Vol.  I, p. 84, note.]

  [Footnote 315:  Ibid., Vol.  I, p. 95.]

  [Footnote 316:  Haydon’s Correspondence, Vol.  I, p. 356.]

  [Footnote 317:  Hunt says Scott was interested in reading The Story of
  Rimini.  See Hunt’s Autobiography, Vol.  I, p. 260.]

[Footnote 318:  Journal, Vol.  I, p. 22.  Scott wrote as follows to Lockhart after the appearance of Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries:  “Hunt has behaved like a hyena to Byron, whom he has dug up to girn and howl over him in the same breath.”  Mr. Lang makes this comment:  “Leigh Hunt ... had gone out of his way to insult Sir Walter and to make the most baseless insinuations against