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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... wild duck swimming on the waves , a single solitary wild duck ! It is not easy to conceive how interesting a thing it looked in that round objectless desert of waters ! " Co At the house of Klopstock , brother of the Poet , he saw a ...
... wild of fancies innocent . It soothed us - it beguiled us then , to hear Once more of troubles wrought by magic spell ; And griefs whose aery motion comes not near The Then , with mild Una in her sober chear , that tempt the Spirit to ...
... wild and fanciful . " The Pains of Sleep " is a rhapsody , which forcibly describes the horrors of the night to a person afflicted with the nightmare ; for such we deem the foundation of the troubles described by Mr. Coleridge , when ...
... wild and singularly original and beautiful poem " of Christabel was conceived and partly executed . -Nondum facies viventis in illa , Jam morientis erat . A 39 Nor can we perceive any symptoms of recovery from this state of " suspended ...
... wild and singularly original and beautiful poem " of Christabel . Could Lord Byron , the author of this pithy sentence , shew us wherein consists its singular beauty ? This is the only specimen we have yet seen of his Lordship's ...