X, p.

189), says that Coleridge and his friends "consider Scott as having stolen the verse" of _Christabel_.
On this point see also a letter by Coleridge, given in Meteyard's _Group of Englishmen_, pp.

327-8.

In 1807 Coleridge wrote to Southey: "I did not over-hugely admire the 'Lay of the Last Minstrel,' but saw no likeness whatever to the 'Christabel,' much less any improper resemblance." (_Letters of Coleridge_, ed.

by E.H.Coleridge, Vol.