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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... Clive's social reforms , such British Critic ( 1793-1826 ) , and Scotch Scotch Reviewers : The Edin- abolition of slavery and the the Antijacobin Review ( 1798- burgh Review , 1802-1815 ( Lon- extension of the franchise ; 1821 ) .
... Clive's social reforms , such British Critic ( 1793-1826 ) , and Scotch Scotch Reviewers : The Edin- abolition of slavery and the the Antijacobin Review ( 1798- burgh Review , 1802-1815 ( Lon- extension of the franchise ; 1821 ) .
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This review , the opening salvo of Jeffrey's unrelenting attack upon the " Lake Poets , " exhibits in its first sentence the perspective of Jeffrey's criticism : the standards of poetry , like religion , are established and immutable ...
This review , the opening salvo of Jeffrey's unrelenting attack upon the " Lake Poets , " exhibits in its first sentence the perspective of Jeffrey's criticism : the standards of poetry , like religion , are established and immutable ...
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... higher commendation of the juftness of his criticism : nor is it a matter of little moment to us , that we are thus able ... as to fix his direft anathema on the presumptuous critics who shall venture to express their disapprobation ...
... higher commendation of the juftness of his criticism : nor is it a matter of little moment to us , that we are thus able ... as to fix his direft anathema on the presumptuous critics who shall venture to express their disapprobation ...
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The case of Mr Wordsworth , we perceive , is now manifestly hopeless ; and we give him up as altogether incurable , and beyond the power of criticism . We cannot indeed altogether omit taking precautions now and then against the ...
The case of Mr Wordsworth , we perceive , is now manifestly hopeless ; and we give him up as altogether incurable , and beyond the power of criticism . We cannot indeed altogether omit taking precautions now and then against the ...
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... we could not help fancying that some il - natured critic had taken this harsh method of instructing Mr Wordsworth , by example , in the nature of those errors , against which our precepts had been so often directed in vain .
... we could not help fancying that some il - natured critic had taken this harsh method of instructing Mr Wordsworth , by example , in the nature of those errors , against which our precepts had been so often directed in vain .
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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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