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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... round with Highland lasses ; By thinking of his whens and hows ; And he had lain beside his asses And half by knitting of his brows On lofty Cheviot Hills : Beneath the glaring sun . And he had trudg'd through Yorkshire dales , Among ...
... Round the decaying trunk of human prides , At morn , and even , and midnight's silent hour , Do penitential cogitations cling : Like ivy , round some ancient elm , they twine In grisly folds and strictures serpentine ; Yet , while they ...
... round and round : His weaker hand the banner held ; But now , his child , with anguish pale , Upon the heights walks too and fro : " Tis well that she hath heard the taleReceived the bitterness of woe : Dead are they , they were doomed ...
... round its neck . The Baron addresses Geraldine , who turne | away from him with ** courtesy fine , " and , gathering up her train , folds her arms across her chest , “ couches her head upon her breast , ” aud looks askancë nt ...
... round him t Sometimes the moon on soft night clouds to rest , Like beauty orstling iu a young man's breast , And all the winking stars , ner handmaids , keep Admiring silence , while those lovers sleep : Sometimes stretch'd in very ...