![]() Godwin has a command over himself in the manner of his recital which Brown has not been able to copy " (132). " This " resemblance, " the anonymous critic opined, coincided with the " gigantic original " of Brown's writing, which was attributable to his youth, a state he defined implicitly as helpless in its lack of cultivation: " his imagination runs riot with him " where " Mr. An anonymous essay on Godwin in the Attic Miscellany of October 1824, for example, deemed Brown " a close and successful copy-ist of the English sage's style " and discerned " community of thought in their views, moral, religious, and political. ![]() ![]() Nineteenth-century observers who saw Charles Brockden Brown's writing as inferior to and imitative of William Godwin's often framed that judgment in a discussion of their relative ages in the eras of their greatest productivity. ![]()
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