The Romantics Reviewed: Contemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers. Part A: The Lake Poets - Volume IIDonald H. Reiman First 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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... expressions are sanctified in his eyes , by the sublime ends for which they are employed ; and the mystical verbiage of the methodist pulpit is repeated , till the speaker entertains no doub that he is the elected organ of divine truth ...
... expressions are sanctified in his eyes , by the sublime ends for which they are employed ; and the mystical verbiage of the methodist pulpit is repeated , till the speaker entertains no doub that he is the elected organ of divine truth ...
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... expression , are eminently fantastic , obscure , and affected . It is quite time , how- ever , that we should give the reader a more particular account of this singular performance . It opens with a picture of the author toiling across ...
... expression , are eminently fantastic , obscure , and affected . It is quite time , how- ever , that we should give the reader a more particular account of this singular performance . It opens with a picture of the author toiling across ...
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... expressions here and there , consists of an exposition of truisms , more cloudy , wordy , and inconceivably prolix , than any thing we ever met with . In the beginning of the Fifth book , they leave the solitary val- ley , taking its ...
... expressions here and there , consists of an exposition of truisms , more cloudy , wordy , and inconceivably prolix , than any thing we ever met with . In the beginning of the Fifth book , they leave the solitary val- ley , taking its ...
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... expression , have totally disappeared ; and , instead of them , a large allowance of the author's own metaphysical sensi- bility , and mystical wordiness , is forced into an unnatural com- bination with the borrowed beauties which have ...
... expression , have totally disappeared ; and , instead of them , a large allowance of the author's own metaphysical sensi- bility , and mystical wordiness , is forced into an unnatural com- bination with the borrowed beauties which have ...
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