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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... genius sprung . His constant struggles with poverty through boyhood , youth , and manhood , - the warmth and vchemence of his passions , his sudden elevation to fame and celebrity , the disappointment of his hopes , -the cruel and ...
... genius of Burns . None but the most narrowminded bigots think of his errors and frailties but with sympathy and indulgence ; none but the blindest enthusiasts can deny their existence . It is very possible that his biographers and ...
... genius . And - much as is our. 208 THERE is something exquisitely discouraging in the conclusions to which a calm review of the effects of contemporary criticism in England must lead every man of tolerably sound judgment ; and in regard ...
... genius are conceived : but in the present volume , while the native strength and origin ality of his genius are most perfectly preserved , not a few of his customary singularities of style and manner are unquestionably less prominent ...
... Genius of the Lakes . And not a few of the most touching and pathetic conceptions in his glorious Novels , we owe to the same source . A few beautiful Wordsworthian verses , quoted at the heads of chapters , shew to the skilful eye how ...