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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... Poems . S. The White Doe of Rylstone , or the Fate of the Nortons , a Poem , by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH . 4to . pp . 162. Longman . 1815 . In these works the author employs the simple and the heroic Styles ; but his merit consists in the ...
Contemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers Donald Reiman. Wordsworth's Poems . 345 346 Wordsworth's Poems ... poem should be strictly the language of prose , when prose is well written . « The truth of this assertion , " he ...
Contemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers Donald Reiman. Wordsworth's Poems . 347 348 Wordsworth's Poems . She is ... poem . It may be said that Thomson's poem of the " Seasons " is disjointed ; but it embraces one year , and the ...
Contemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers Donald Reiman. Wordsworth's Poems . 353 author visited , for the first time , the beautiful scenery that surrounds Bolton Priory , in Yorkshire ; and that the poem of the White Doe ...
... POEM . THE Waggoner is a poem of a kind whereof Mr Wordsworth's muse had not hitherto afforded any example . It is lightly and playful , written in a dancing , merry , irregular measure , sometimes almost Hudibrastic in its cadences and ...