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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... hear a wonder for sake now , Of which this mournful Tal- I tell ! A lasting monument of words This wonder merits well . The Dog , which still was hovering nigh , Repeating the same timid cry , This Dog had been through three months ...
... hear as of a faery shell Attuned to words with sacred wisdom fraught ; Free Fancy prized each specious miracle , And all its finer inspiration caught ; " Till , in the bosom of our rustic Cell , We by a lamentable change were taught ...
... Hear then , " said he , " while I impart , My Son , the last wish of my heart . The Banner strive thou to regain ... hear me , hear me , gentle Maid ! For I am come with power to bless , To scatter gleams through your distress Of a ...
... hear ? They rose - embraces none were givenThey stood like trees when earth and heaven Are calm ; they knew each other's worth , And reverently the Band went forth . They met , when they had reached the door , The Banner which a Soldier ...
... hear him , theu who hast to me Been faithless , hear him , though a lowly creature , One of God's simple children that yet know not The universal Parent ; how he sings , As if he wished the firmament of heaven Should listen , and give ...