Love and Jealousy, Europa, and other Poems. By the ROT.
Gerrard Lewis, B.A. (R. Hardwicke.)—It is probable that Mr. Lewis is a very young man, and if so, these verses are decidedly creditable to him. They are sensible, smooth in versification, pure in feeling, and the descriptive powers of the author are considerable. But they seem to us to have little positive value as poetry, though they will doubtless be acceptable to the friends of Mr. Lewis as a proof and sample of his powers. "Europa" is, however, not improved by the few lines at the end which endeavour to give it an allegorical meaning. .Crete is certainly west of Tyre, but that is hardly enough to make the "Rape of Europa" an illustration of "the well-known truth that all knowledge and art came originally from the East, and have ever travelled westward." Mr. Lewis had reason, indeed, for making the bull console Europa on the passage by remarking that "This bull is not the bull that he appears."
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