The Romantics Reviewed: Contemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers. Part A: The Lake Poets - Volume IIFirst published in 1972, this volume contains contemporary British periodical reviews of the Lake Poets, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey and Lamb, in publications from the Edinburgh Review to Variety. 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. This book will be of interest to those studying the Romantics and English literature. |
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A poet , who aims at all a : fublimity or pathos , is like an actor in a high tragic character , and must sustain his dignity throughout , or become altogether ridiculous . We are apt enough to laugh at the mock - majesty of those whom ...
A poet , who aims at all a : fublimity or pathos , is like an actor in a high tragic character , and must sustain his dignity throughout , or become altogether ridiculous . We are apt enough to laugh at the mock - majesty of those whom ...
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The language of the vulgar , on the otber ginary beings , whose characters and language are in contrafs hand , has all ... ever violated fpontaneouly . each of them a diftinct character , as well as a separate idiom ; It has been argued ...
The language of the vulgar , on the otber ginary beings , whose characters and language are in contrafs hand , has all ... ever violated fpontaneouly . each of them a diftinct character , as well as a separate idiom ; It has been argued ...
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Now , this style , we conceive , poffeffes no one character of excellence ; it is feeble , low , and disjointed ; without elegance , and without dignity , the offspring , we should imagine , of mere indolence and neglect , or the ...
Now , this style , we conceive , poffeffes no one character of excellence ; it is feeble , low , and disjointed ; without elegance , and without dignity , the offspring , we should imagine , of mere indolence and neglect , or the ...
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From the dead forcerer's finger , Thalaba takes a ring , inscribed with some unintelligible characters , which he is ... where , instead of just imitations of nature and human character , we are entertained with the transformation of ...
From the dead forcerer's finger , Thalaba takes a ring , inscribed with some unintelligible characters , which he is ... where , instead of just imitations of nature and human character , we are entertained with the transformation of ...
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There is little of human character in the poem , indced ; because Thalaba is a solitary wanderer from the folitary tent of his protector : But the home group , in which his infancy was spent , is pleasingly delineated ; and there is ...
There is little of human character in the poem , indced ; because Thalaba is a solitary wanderer from the folitary tent of his protector : But the home group , in which his infancy was spent , is pleasingly delineated ; and there is ...
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| Title | The Romantics Reviewed: Contemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers. Part A: The Lake Poets - Volume II Routledge Revivals: The Romantics Reviewed |
| Editor | Donald H. Reiman |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2017 |
| ISBN | 1134884966, 9781134884964 |
| Length | 485 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / Modern / 18th Century |
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