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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... fair . " The following lines conclude the parting between Francis Norton and Emily :“ O sister , I could prophesy ! The time is come that rings the knell Of all we loved , and loved so well ; — Hope nothing , if I thus may speak To thee ...
... Fair fruit of pleasure and serene content From blossoms wild of fancies innocent . It soothed us - it beguiled us then , to hear Once more of troubles wrought by magic spell ; And griefs whose aery motion comes not near The Then , with ...
... fair to fairer ; day by day A more divine and loftier way ! Even such this blessed Pilgrim trod , By sorrow lifted tow'rds her God ; Uplifted to the purest sky Of undisturbed mortality . 379 Her own thoughts loved she ; and could bend A ...
... Fair is the land as evening skies , And cool , though in the depth it lics Of burning Africa . Or we'll into the realm of Facry , Among the lovely shades of things ; The shadowy forms of mountains - bare , And streams , and bowers , and ...
... fair and spotless as his ends . " This we have quoted at full length . We wish it were in our power to follow the some course with the fine old British or Armorican legend of Artegal and Elidure . We must omit , however , the ...