Abstract
THE casual reader in English literature knows John Wilson, Christopher North , because young Alfred Tennyson lost his temper. Yet the lines on crusty, rusty, musty, fusty Christopher are as absurdly inapplicable to the author of the Recreations of Christopher North and the best of the Noctes Ambrosiance as they are to John Wilson the sentimental or macabre poet, John Wilson the emotional critic, John Wilson the brilliant talker of Modern Athens, lecturer in Moral Philosophy for thirty years at the University of Edinburgh, contributor of thousands of pages to Blackwood's Magazine, enemy of Whigs, flayer of Cockneys, and friend of De Quincey, Wordsworth, Lockhart, Walter Scott, Thomas Campbell, and James Hogg. Alexander Smith, in A Summer in Skye (1865), writes:
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