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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Page 416
It is in such passages , accordingly , that we are most frequently offended with low and inelegant expressions ; and that the language , which was intended to be simple and aatural , is found oftenest to degenerate into mere ...
It is in such passages , accordingly , that we are most frequently offended with low and inelegant expressions ; and that the language , which was intended to be simple and aatural , is found oftenest to degenerate into mere ...
Page 417
... fitted for their fairly be presumed to be better than that of their inferiors : at expression , can still more rarely form any part of their ordinary any rate , it has all those affociations in its favour , by means of conversation ...
... fitted for their fairly be presumed to be better than that of their inferiors : at expression , can still more rarely form any part of their ordinary any rate , it has all those affociations in its favour , by means of conversation ...
Page 418
... it may yet be worth while to mention : This is the extreme difficulty of supporting the same low tone of expression throughout , and the inequality that is consequently introduced in to the texture of the composition .
... it may yet be worth while to mention : This is the extreme difficulty of supporting the same low tone of expression throughout , and the inequality that is consequently introduced in to the texture of the composition .
Page 431
Another source of beauty , which extends only to the more instructed class of readers , is that which con fists in the judicious or happy application of expressions which have been fanctified by the use of famous writers , or which bear ...
Another source of beauty , which extends only to the more instructed class of readers , is that which con fists in the judicious or happy application of expressions which have been fanctified by the use of famous writers , or which bear ...
Page 440
... can scarcely avoid believing that he is eminently original and impressive : --All sorts of commonplace notions and expressions are sanctified in his eyes , by the sublime ends for which they are employed ; and the mystical verbiage ...
... can scarcely avoid believing that he is eminently original and impressive : --All sorts of commonplace notions and expressions are sanctified in his eyes , by the sublime ends for which they are employed ; and the mystical verbiage ...
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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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