60. Several reviewers deplore that Abrams only pays scant attention to German romanticism. See R. Wellek, ‘Review of M.H. Abrams’s The Mirror and the Lamp’, p. 180: ‘Though Mr. Abrams frequently refers to Coleridge’s German models, he consistently overrates his originality and novelty and thus, to my mind, distorts the general history of romantic criticism in Europe.’