text: " Mr Horne the author of "The False Medium " "Orion " the "Spirit of the Age " and some other clever brochures in prose and in verse in the laboured rather than elaborate introduction to "The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer modernized " (1841 ) by Leigh Hunt Wordsworth Robert Bell Thomas Powell Elizabeth Barrett and Zachariah Azed gives us some threescore pages on Chaucer's versification; but though they have an imposing air at first sight on inspection they prove stark-naught