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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... merits of a poet , as Homer would have been to write a commentary on the Newtonian System . " Thus , while it would be a mistake to minimize the political power and influence of the Edinburgh Review - which , with the Quarterly ...
... merits of a poet , as Homer would have been to write a commentary on the Newtonian System . " Thus , while it would be a mistake to minimize the political power and influence of the Edinburgh Review - which , with the Quarterly ...
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... merits , and to make a few remarks upon thofe peculiarities which feem to be regard . ed by their admirers as the furent proofs of their excellence . Their most diftinguishing fymbol , is undoubtedly an affecta- tion of great fimplicity ...
... merits , and to make a few remarks upon thofe peculiarities which feem to be regard . ed by their admirers as the furent proofs of their excellence . Their most diftinguishing fymbol , is undoubtedly an affecta- tion of great fimplicity ...
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... merit merely of cutting out each of his figures from the piece where its inventor had placed it , and ftitching them down together in thefe judicious combinations . It is impoffible to perufe this poem , with the notes , without feeling ...
... merit merely of cutting out each of his figures from the piece where its inventor had placed it , and ftitching them down together in thefe judicious combinations . It is impoffible to perufe this poem , with the notes , without feeling ...
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... merit . This , however , is by no means the cafe . We think it written , indeed , in a very vicious tafte , and liable , upon the whole , to very for midable objections : But it would not be doing juftice to the ge qius of the author ...
... merit . This , however , is by no means the cafe . We think it written , indeed , in a very vicious tafte , and liable , upon the whole , to very for midable objections : But it would not be doing juftice to the ge qius of the author ...
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... merits and defects of this performance , as will probably be fufficient to determine the judgment of our readers . All the productions of this author , it appears to us , bear very diftinctly the impreffion of an amiable mind , a ...
... merits and defects of this performance , as will probably be fufficient to determine the judgment of our readers . All the productions of this author , it appears to us , bear very diftinctly the impreffion of an amiable mind , a ...
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