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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... 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 point to ...
... truth is , that no man can , with his eyes open , read Dr Currie's Life of Burns , and the multitude of letters from and to the poet which his edition contains , without a clear , distinct , and perfect knowledge of all the causes from ...
... truth . " The price of this very useful article was fourpence . Off he set on a tour to the north to procure subscribers , " preaching in most of the great towns as a hireless Volunteer , in a blue coat and white waistcoat , that not a ...
... truth may entertain Coy fancy with a bolder strain ) The HELVETIAN Girl - who daily braves , In her light skiff , the tossing waves , And quits the bosom of the deep Only to climb the rugged steep ! Say whence that modulated shout ...
... truth and importance of the two first , and we are precluded from denying the abstract truth , though we doubt of the practical expediency of the last . The principles are , first , that 40 whatsoever material or temporary exists before ...