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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... imagination of even the greatest to ini , must , in livefiness and truth , fall far short of that which is uttered by men in real life , and under the pressure of actual passions . All that is called poetic diction , he therefore ...
... Imagination . Fancy and imagination are , by lexicographers , improperly considered as synonimous terms . Mr. Wordsworth tells us that the former is of a light , and the latter of a serious nature . One of these poems ( which has no ...
... imagination : and we cannot help thinking that the success of the new school would have been almost complete , had not its founders carried their affectation of simplicity so far as to really render themselves ridiculous . We do not ...
... Imagination , but little or no real feeling , and certainly no judgment . He cannot form to himself any harmonious landscape such as it exists in nature , but beautified by the serene light of the imagination . He cannot conceive simple ...
... imagination that the beauty , apparent and delightful to others , shines not upon them . All those inagical touches , by which a true Poet awakens endless trains of thought in an imaginative mind , are not felt at all by persons of such ...