The Romantics Reviewed: Contemporary Reviews of British Romantic WritersDonald Reiman First published in 1972, this set of 9 volumes contains all contemporary British periodical reviews of the first (or other significantly early) editions from 1793 and 1824 of works by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats. In addition, a few later reviews are supplied, as well as a substantial number of reviews of other contemporary figures, including William Godwin, Robert Southey, Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, Thomas Moore, Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Introductions to each periodical provide brief sketches of each publication as well as names, dates and bibliographical information. Headnotes offer bibliographical data of the reviews and suggested approaches to studying them. The index serves to locate authors and titles reviewed, reviewers, sources of quotations, other people and works mentioned and other proper nouns of interest. This comprehensive set will be of interest to those studying the Romantics and English literature. |
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... wanderer born Drops at his feet , and ftills his droning horn . -The whiftling fwain that plods his ringing way Where the flow waggon winds along the bay ; The fugh of swallow flocks that twittering fweep , The folemn curfew fwinging ...
... wanderer from my native home , I fain would footh the sense of care , And lull to fleep the joys , that were ! Thy image may not banish'd be Still Mary ! ftill I figh for thee . ' octical epiftles form one divifion of this volume : but ...
... wanderer " That she had parted with her elder child To a kind master on a distant farm , Now happily apprenticed . " She confesses that by her occasional rambles she has done herself and helpless infant much wrong . The neglected babe ...
... wanderer ensue , and after ruminating on the state of Man , he and his fellow traveller ( the author ) visit the lonely house again , where the former administers consolation to the Solitary . During his admonitions he alludes to the ...
... Wanderer , and an Evening Visit to the Lake , " exhibits the Wanderer as a preacher . He declares , that an active principle pervades the universe , and expresses an earnest wish for a system of National Education established ...