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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... idea in the following passage is highly poctical , and is expressed by the author with considerable felicity , though too minutely : " A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy , And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head , Each shrunk ...
... idea of brother performing this sacred duty to brother , —the grave , the sedate , and the reflecting mind , describing the life and character of the more highly - gifted , but also the more erring and unfortunate . It would appear ...
... idea of the mere faculty or power is absorbed as it were in the idea of the work performed . That work stands out in its glory from the mind of its Creator ; and in the contemplation of it , he forgets that he himself was the cause of ...
... ideas . The chief fault is the dallying prolixity of some parts , which is the more felt , because there is a progressive ... idea conveyed by it , and also in the poetical merits of the execution . As for the fine and picturesque animal ...
... idea , with the image ; the individual , with the representative ; the sense of novelty and freshness , with old and familiar objects ; a more than usual state of emotion , with more than usual order ; judgment ever awake and steady ...