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 ...
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... though there are fome passages , in which a patriotic zeal for neglecte 1 English authors has made him copy their ... have lifped out his repetitions in blank verle , with more amiable fimplicity than in the following passage ?
... though there are fome passages , in which a patriotic zeal for neglecte 1 English authors has made him copy their ... have lifped out his repetitions in blank verle , with more amiable fimplicity than in the following passage ?
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This little episode of Laila is one of the most pleasing passages in the whole poem ; though it is quite in the style of a fairy tale , and borders on filliness throughout . In the midit of a desart of snow , Thalaba descries a diftant ...
This little episode of Laila is one of the most pleasing passages in the whole poem ; though it is quite in the style of a fairy tale , and borders on filliness throughout . In the midit of a desart of snow , Thalaba descries a diftant ...
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We might have selected many other passages of equal antiquity . The whole is indeed almost uniformly venerable , and will be justly appretiated by all who are desirous of postelling a complete specimen of the drama in its state of ...
We might have selected many other passages of equal antiquity . The whole is indeed almost uniformly venerable , and will be justly appretiated by all who are desirous of postelling a complete specimen of the drama in its state of ...
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When we look at these , and many still finer passages , in the writings of this author , it is impossible not to feel a mixture of indignation and compassion ...
When we look at these , and many still finer passages , in the writings of this author , it is impossible not to feel a mixture of indignation and compassion ...
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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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