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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... opinion the Edinburgh Review is as well qualified to judge the 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 ...
... opinion the Edinburgh Review is as well qualified to judge the 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 ...
Page 419
... opinions they are calculated to fupport , confti- tute a far more important criterion , and one to which it is ufually altogether 18c2 : Southey's Thalaba : 72 altogether as eafy to refer . Some poets are fufficiently defcribed as the ...
... opinions they are calculated to fupport , confti- tute a far more important criterion , and one to which it is ufually altogether 18c2 : Southey's Thalaba : 72 altogether as eafy to refer . Some poets are fufficiently defcribed as the ...
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... opinion of it . So far from apprehending that it may coft his readers fome trouble to convince themselves that the greater part of the book is not mere profe , written out into the form of verfe , he is perfuaded that its melody is more ...
... opinion of it . So far from apprehending that it may coft his readers fome trouble to convince themselves that the greater part of the book is not mere profe , written out into the form of verfe , he is perfuaded that its melody is more ...
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... opinion of this poem is very decidedly unfavourable ; and that we are not difpofed to allow it any fort of merit . This , however , is by no means the cafe . We think it written , indeed , in a very vicious tafte , and liable , upon the ...
... opinion of this poem is very decidedly unfavourable ; and that we are not difpofed to allow it any fort of merit . This , however , is by no means the cafe . We think it written , indeed , in a very vicious tafte , and liable , upon the ...
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... opinion of the age of the prefent drama . We might have selected many other , paffages of equal antiquity . The whole is indeed almoft uniformly venerable , and will be juftly appretiated by all who are defirous of poffeffing a complete ...
... opinion of the age of the prefent drama . We might have selected many other , paffages of equal antiquity . The whole is indeed almoft uniformly venerable , and will be juftly appretiated by all who are defirous of poffeffing a complete ...
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