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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... beautiful noonday apparition . Among others , An Old Man - studious to expound The spectacle - hath mounted high Tu days of dim antiquity ; When Lady Aäliza inourned Her Son , and felt in her despair , The pang of unavailing prayer ...
... beautiful passages of the Mighty Minstrel , wherein he speaks not of knights , squires , and steeds , but of himself perhaps , or of other men , living or dying in a peaceful world , are manifestly coloured and inspirited by the light ...
... beautiful , or majestic , or sublime ; and often as the soul listens to the harmony , swelling and deepening to a close , it is as if Wordsworth's Sonnets and Memorials . " Through the long - drawn aisle and fret ted vault , The pealing ...
... beautiful in all things that he never fails to see where they exist , and never fails to celebrate where he sees them . The Excursion is not our favourite of his works , but no man could have written that poem without this power and ...
... beautiful poem " of Christabel . Could Lord Byron , the author of this pithy sentence , shew us wherein consists its singular beauty ? This is the only specimen we have yet seen of his Lordship's critical powers ; but from the ...