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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... expression , ) and he endeavours to show that even where the poet speaks in his own character , he should employ no ... expressing such thoughts and feelings as are thus excited in him . " These " passions and thoughts , and feelings ...
... expressing love is " in words of imminent bitterness , " the poem concludes with these verses , which appear to us a ... expression , of some of the inimitable saintly figures of Guido Rheni and Dominichino : “ It was a lovely sight to ...
... expression of our author ) an under - current to all his observations of hatred and contempt against our fellow - labourers ( though we trust not in the same vineyard ) of the north . With respect to the general character of the work ...
... expression , only " touched and gone " on subjects and trains of thought , to which he has devoted all the intensity of a reflective mind , and elaborately unravelled and examined , still we imagine that he has been a long and deep ...
... expressing slowe ness of apprehension this actor surpassed all others . You could see the first dawn of an idea ... expression . A glimmer of understanding would appear in a corner of his eye , and for lack of fuel go out again . A ...