Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth/Volume 1/Letter 87

To C. SNEYD EDGEWORTH, IN DUBLIN.

EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Feb. 10, 1813.

Rokeby is, in my opinion&mdash;and let every soul speak for themselves&mdash;most beautiful poetry: the four first cantos and half the fifth are all I have yet read. I think it a higher and better, because less Scotch, more universal style of poetry than any Walter Scott has yet produced, though not altogether perfect of its kind. It has more discrimination of character, more knowledge of human nature, more generalised reflection, much more moral aim.

In March, Miss Edgeworth accompanied her father and stepmother to England.