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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... never out of hearing , " O may he never more be warm ! " The cold , cold moon above her head , Thus on her knees did Goody pray , Young Harry heard what the had faid , And icy cold he turned away . • He went complaining all the morrow ...
... never was so strange and awkward an eulogist of intoxication . 266 [ June The reader will , from this quotation. good humour , and with a smile on our faces ; but what follows is too deplorable to be laughed at ; and if he will make fool ...
... never more remarkably proved than by the present poem ; yet we must certainly concur with those who maintain that its truth can never be adduced as a reason for preferring incidents and circumstances that are disagreeably homely , and ...
... never , never ,How tunefully the forests ring ! To hear the earth's soft murmuring Thus could I hang for ever ! Haste and above Siberian snows We'll sport amid the boreal morning , Will mingle with her lustres gliding Among the stars ...
... never let the wretched , if a choice Be left him , trust the freight of his distress To a long voyage , on the ... never break the stillness that prevails Here , if the solenin uightingale be mute , And the soft wood - lark here did ...