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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Page 415
... poems are alluded to on page 68. But Jeffrey has an easier target for his scorn in Southey's poem , and he concen- trates on its obvious weaknesses . ART . VIII . Thalaba , the Deftroyer : A Metrical Romance . By Robert Southey . 2 vols ...
... poems are alluded to on page 68. But Jeffrey has an easier target for his scorn in Southey's poem , and he concen- trates on its obvious weaknesses . ART . VIII . Thalaba , the Deftroyer : A Metrical Romance . By Robert Southey . 2 vols ...
Page 421
... poem is almost as ill chofen as the diction ; and the conduct of the fable as diforderly as the verfification . The corporation of magicians , that inhabit the Domdaniel caverns , under the roots of the ocean , ' had difcovered , that a ...
... poem is almost as ill chofen as the diction ; and the conduct of the fable as diforderly as the verfification . The corporation of magicians , that inhabit the Domdaniel caverns , under the roots of the ocean , ' had difcovered , that a ...
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... poem were not de- lineated with more truth and feeling , the notoriety of the author would scarcely have induced us to bestow fo much time on its ex- amination . Though the tiffue of adventures through which Thalaba is conducted in the ...
... poem were not de- lineated with more truth and feeling , the notoriety of the author would scarcely have induced us to bestow fo much time on its ex- amination . Though the tiffue of adventures through which Thalaba is conducted in the ...
Page 423
... poem is little elfe than his common - place book verfified . It may eafily be imagined , that a poem conftructed upon fuch a plan , must be full of cumbrous and mifplaced defcription , and overloaded with a crowd of incidents , equally ...
... poem is little elfe than his common - place book verfified . It may eafily be imagined , that a poem conftructed upon fuch a plan , must be full of cumbrous and mifplaced defcription , and overloaded with a crowd of incidents , equally ...
Page 429
... poem , Helen grown old , no longer cold , Said , " You to all men I prefer , " p . 107 . are moft fingularly placed ... poems of this kind fhould end with a point ; and wifely reflecting , that the be- ginning of any thing is as much a ...
... poem , Helen grown old , no longer cold , Said , " You to all men I prefer , " p . 107 . are moft fingularly placed ... poems of this kind fhould end with a point ; and wifely reflecting , that the be- ginning of any thing is as much a ...
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