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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... eye blinks dull and shy , And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head , Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye , And with somewhat of malice , and more of dread , At Christabel she look'd askance !One moment - and the sight was filed ! But ...
... eyes around ; Then drawing in her breath aloud , Like one that shudder'd , she unbound The cincture from beneath her breast : Her silken robe , and inner vest , Dropt to her feet , and full in view , Behold ! her bosom and half her ...
... eye blinks dull and shy , And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head , Each shrunk up to a serpent's cye , And with somewhat of malice , and more of dread . At Christabel she look'd askance !One moment and the sight was fled ...
... eyes , beheld That ravifhment of mine , and laugh'd aloud . The rock , like fomething starting from a fleep , Took up the lady's voice , and laugh'd again : That ancient woman * , feated on Helm - crag , Was ready with her cavern ...
... eyes , in that it has led him to state his own fairy dreams as the true interpretation and import of the looks and movements of children , as being ever really in their minds . Such are the faults of composition , into which the habit ...