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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... equally well made to answer the same end.Nevertheless , it is a great chance whether , if Mr Wordsworth had studied 131 to find more dignified incidents and circumstances , he would not have lost some part of his originality among the ...
... equally well with too many subjects ; in which however it yielded the palin at once to the example of Alexander and Clytus , which was equally good and apt , whatever might be the theme . Was it ambition ? Alexander and Clytus ...
... equally in small as in great concerns , cannot but inspire and bestow when this too is softened without being weakened by kindness and gentleness I know few men who so well deserve the character which an antient attributes to Marcus ...
... equally prudent in certain of the class of occasional versifiers , and paragraph writers , to distrust any officious attempt on the part of their friends to compress their light - winged bluettes into the corporate heaviness of " Works ...
... equally capable of the process , and in the availing itself of that capability , the true and essential excellence of poetry consists , then the commonest external thing , the most every day occurrence of life , or the meanest ...