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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... human passions , human characters , and human incidents ; and if the answer be favorable to the author's wishes , that they should confent to be pleased in spite of that most dreadful enemy to our pleasures , our own pre - established ...
... human foot or hand . There , sometimes does a leaping fish Send through the Tarn a lonely chear ; The Crags repeat the Raven's croak , In symphony austere ; Thither the Rainbow comes , the Cloud ; And Mists that spread the flying shroud ...
... human nature and human life - and hence , finally , the unfortunate habit he has acquired of attaching exquisite emotions to - 529 April 1800 [ Wordsworth and Coleridge ] Lyrical Ballads (. objects which excite none in any other human ...
... human nature . To become operators on our own shrinking spirits is something worse ; for by probing the wounds of the soul , what can ensue but callousness or irritability . And it may be remarked , that those persons who have busied ...
... human figures and characters acting on the theatre of real existence . But his pictures of nature are fine only as Imaging the dreaminess , and obscurity , and confusion of distempered sleep ; while all his agents pass before our eyes ...