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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... give some portraits of the living or dead , from his observations of life among the mountains , describes the mountain cottage and its inhabitants . His account of persons interred in the churchyard commences with desultory reflections ...
... give new pleasure like the past , " Continued long as life shall last . " Nor am I loth , though pleased at heart , " Sweet Highland Girl , from thee to part ; " For I , methinks , till I grow old , " As fair before me shall behold ...
... give publicity to any portion of these ( his opinions ) , unless it be thought probable that an open circulation of the whole may be useful ; " and to this very pompous injunction he adds , in a note , * " that it was deemed that it ...
... give the timid herbage leave to shoot , Heaven's breathing influence failed not to bestow A timely promise of unlooked - for fruit , Fair fruit of pleasure and serene content From blossoms wild of fancies innocent . It soothed us - it ...
... give only mutilated passages of poetry , from which it is quite impossible to judge of its merit , or to feel its spirit . But we follow another plan , and give either whole poems , or such continu ous portions as enable our readers to ...