Rotten Reviews: Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Edward Gibbon

Posted on May 17, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Gibbon’s style is detestable; but is not the worst thing about him.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Complete Works 1853

Excerpted from: Bernard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.

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