SOURCE: Review of The Warrior's Return and Other Poems by Amelia Opie, in Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, Vol. LXXVII, July, 1808, pp. 612-13.

In the following review, the critic praises Opie 's The Warrior's Return and Other Poems for its originality and the polish of its meter.

This neat diminutive volume, containing 185 pages, is thus modestly introduced to the Publick by the fair Authoress, the relict of Opie, the late excellent painter, who had the singular good fortune to unite the sister Arts of Poetry and Painting by his marriage with this lady: "The Poems which compose this little volume were written, with two or three exceptions, several years ago; and to arrange and fit them for publication has been the amusement of many hours of retirement." The contents are, "The Warrior's Return;" "Julia, or the Convent of St. Clair, a Tale, founded on Fact;" "The Mad Wanderer...