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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... thought this day ? ) Not seldom foremost in the wayIf on one thought our minds have fed , If , when at home our private weal And we have in one meaning read --- Hath suffered from the shock of zeal , Together we have learned to prize ...
... thought Emily , the same , The very . Doe of other years ! The pleading look the Lady viewed , And , by her gushing thoughts subdued , She melted into tearsA flood of tears , that flowed apace Upon the happy Creature's face . Oh ...
... thought , producing , in the writer , an effort to make the pleasure derivable from his work as near to that of mere animal sensation as might be . Yet many men of sense and spirit were reconciled to the couplet style , by the strong ...
... thought , but that thought may , nay , must be associated and compounded ; it must be single only with reference to any other such thought succeeding it , so componnded and associated . It must be " qualche sentenza , " or as the Romans ...
... thought , grandeur of emotion , and fertility of imagination ; his noble lyrical rhapsodies and facile songs ; his splendid allegorical satires ; his smooth , and sweet , and romantic tragedies , fascinating with all their faults : the ...