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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... Comes gliding in with lovely gleam , Comes gliding in serene and slow , 354 Wordsworth's Poems . Soft and silent as a dream , A solitary Doe . " p . 5 , 6 . The harmony of these lines is greatly assisted by the well introduced ...
... comes another address to the same things composed , shewing a tour , chiefy on flower , which is very childish . And it is suc - foot . Musa pedestris indeed ! All these , exceeded by a poem called , A Character of the | cept one called ...
... Comes gliding in serene and slow , Soft and silent as a dream , A solitary Doe ! White she is as the lily in June ... come that rings the knell Of all we loved , and loved so well ; — Hope nothing , if I thus may speak To thee a woman ...
... Comes gliding in serene and slow , Soft and silent as a dream , A solitary Doe ! White she is as lily of June , And ... come into the church - yard at the close of the service , the White Doe is seen still lying undisturbed and fearless ...
... comes , and informs her of the end of the sad tragedy , the execution of her father and all his eight sons . Francis alone surrives . " Your noble Brother hath been spared , To take his life they have not dared . On him and on his high ...