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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... poetry incorporated and intertwined with the ordinary tissue of mere human existence , we feel ourselves hurried from this our civilized age , back into the troubled bosom of seinibar barous life , and inade keen partakers in all its ...
Contemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers Donald Reiman. On the Lake School of Poetry . On the Lake School of Poetry . 1818. ] If Byron be altogether unlike Scott , Wordsworth is yet more unlike Byron . With all the great and ...
... poetry , that developement , collision , or other relation of internal feelings , which the poet chooses for his subject , generally partakes of the nature of a universal truth , and is capable of being represented by means of a ...
... poetry is good , and he is calmly satisfied . Indeed , his poetry is to him religion ; and we venture to say , that it has been felt to be so by thousands . It would be absolute profanation to speak one word against many of his finest ...
... Poetry , that its materials are to be found in every fubject which can intereft the human mind . The evidence of this fact is to be fought , not in the writings of Critics , but in thofe of poets themselves . " The majority of the ...