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Jeffrey, Francis, Lord Jeffrey

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Jeffrey, Francis, Lord Jeffrey (1773–1850)

Scottish lawyer and literary critic. He was a founder of the Edinburgh Review in 1802 and editor from 1803–29. In 1830 he was made Lord Advocate, and in 1834 a Scottish law lord. Among his critical works are Samuel Richardson (1852) and Jonathan Swift (1853). He was hostile to the Romantic poets, and wrote of Wordsworth's Excursion: ‘This will never do.’



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