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 clearly more spirit than the other. Both have succeeded sufficiently to gratify the English reader with a very striking story; but neither has transfused the peculiar and characteristic beauties of his author with a free and masterly hand.

At this point the reviewer mentions what is evidently Taylor's version of the Lenore, which had appeared in the Monthly Magazine for March. He then takes up Stanley's new conclusion:

The Monthly Review was also generally favorable, though also criticising the new conclusion of the poem: