John Wilson Croker: An Early Unpublished Poem.

The article looks at the unpublished poem "Ode to Contemplation" by John Wilson Croker, author, literary critic and first secretary of the Admirality in the early 19th century Britain. Topics discussed include the reputation of Crocker as a literary critic in light of his review of the poem "Endymion" by John Keats and works by Mary Shelley and Alfred Tennyson, overview of Croker's poem "The Battles of Talavera," and the absence of punctuation in the "Ode to Contemplation."