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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 79
... spirit , his Image haunts the magnificent cliffs of our Lakes and Seas . And if he be , as every heart feels , the author of those noble Prose Works that continue to flash upon the world , to him exclusively belongs the glory of wedding ...
... spirit of love , and benignity , and etherial purity , which breathes over all his pictures of the virtues and the happiness of man , pervades those too of external nature . Indeed , all the Pocts of the age , and none can dispute that ...
... spirit in the solitary haunts and recesses of nature , and suffers no living thing to intrude there , to disturb the dreams of his own imagination . He is to himself all in all.He holds communings with the great spirit of human life ...
... spirit of Christianity - the most splendid imagination overpowered by its sanctities , whether sleeping silently in the dark depths of bosoms agitated by mortal hope and fear , or embodied , to outward eyes , in beautiful or magnificent ...
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.