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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... speak , and fear and wonder crush thy rage , And turn it to a motionless distraction ! Thou blind self - worshipper ! Thy pride , thy cunning , Thy sballow sophisms , tby pretended scorn For all thy human brethren - out upon them ! What ...
... speak the truth , and that boldly , — but he is not to speak all the truth , yet he is not told what to conceal ; — then he is to consult his conscience ; 263 66 then he is to beware of undue partiality ; —and , finally , to fix the ...
... speak of any ship in particular , but generally . The beauty of the passage in Gray depends on its being prophetic of a particular misfortune , namely , the drowning of young Prince Henry . Thirdly , in Shakespeare , the vessel puts ...
... speak : they have not learned the alphabet of his language ; but there are many of better and more honest feelings , delighted according to rule by scenery and verse , who are yet so startled by the new and abtruse combinations which ...
... speak at all ; the speech is merely inserted ornamenti gratiâ ; and if it was incorrect to make him speak in any other than forms and phrases inseparably connected with low and ridiculous associations , we think there can be no doubt ...