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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... interest , and with many striking passages . The author , in the commencement , meets with a valued and respected friend , whom , in the work , he styles a Wanderer , and who leads him first to the retreat of a Solitary , and next to ...
... interest of suspended curiosity than almost any other of the tales of the same author ; but this is not saying much for it on that score . The diction , throughout a great part of it , is highly animated and poetical , and more ...
... interest . Upon the whole , it is equal to any of the lyrical ballads , both in the excellence and originality of the general idea conveyed by it , and also in the poetical merits of the execution . As for the fine and picturesque ...
... interest ; to treat this story without exaggeration of any kind ; neither throwing more of morality or passion into it than a story of such a class may fairly possess , nor yet giving it a ludicrous effect by ironical exaltation , or ...
... interest his reader ; wherever , therefore , the charm derivable from the characters and incidents of a story is less strong , and wherever the manner in wiżch it is told is intended not to exaggerate it beyond its natural power , it ...