ABSTRACT
First published in The Examiner, VII, 16 January 1814, pp. 41–2. Hunt’s review of Robert Southey’s new year’s ode on Britain’s military triumphs over Napoleon, Carmen Triumphale, For the Commencement of the Year 1814, appears within the body of this week’s Examiner, just before the Theatrical Examiner. For Hunt’s previous indictments of the institution of the poet laureateship and Southey’s acceptance of the title in 1813, see the Political Examiners for 15 August, 1813, pp. 513–14 and above, pp. 293–5; 29 August 1813, pp. 545–7; 26 September 1813, pp. 609–11 and above, pp. 296–300.
