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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This review , the opening salvo of Jeffrey's unrelenting attack upon the " Lake Poets , " exhibits in its first ... But Jeffrey has an easier target for his scorn in Southey's poem , and he concentrates on its obvious weaknesses . ART .
This review , the opening salvo of Jeffrey's unrelenting attack upon the " Lake Poets , " exhibits in its first ... But Jeffrey has an easier target for his scorn in Southey's poem , and he concentrates on its obvious weaknesses . ART .
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Part A: The Lake Poets - Volume II Donald H. Reiman. 71 Southey's Thalabide oa , The blinded ... The subject of this poem is almost as ill chosen as the diction ; and the conduct of the fable as disorderly as the versification .
Part A: The Lake Poets - Volume II Donald H. Reiman. 71 Southey's Thalabide oa , The blinded ... The subject of this poem is almost as ill chosen as the diction ; and the conduct of the fable as disorderly as the versification .
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Part A: The Lake Poets - Volume II Donald H. Reiman ... known to be very troublesome in the management , and have frequently occafioned much perplexity to poets and other persons who have been rafh enough to call for their assistance .
Part A: The Lake Poets - Volume II Donald H. Reiman ... known to be very troublesome in the management , and have frequently occafioned much perplexity to poets and other persons who have been rafh enough to call for their assistance .
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There is little of human character in the poem , indced ; because Thalaba is a solitary wanderer from the folitary tent of his protector : But the home group , in which his infancy was spent , is pleasingly delineated ; and there is ...
There is little of human character in the poem , indced ; because Thalaba is a solitary wanderer from the folitary tent of his protector : But the home group , in which his infancy was spent , is pleasingly delineated ; and there is ...
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96 October 1807 Wordsworth , Poems ( 1807 ) ; review by Francis Jeffrey , Edinburgh Review , XI ( Oct. 1807 ) , 214-231 ... The two lines which close the poem , • Helen grown old , no longer cold , Said , “ You to all men i prefer , " p ...
96 October 1807 Wordsworth , Poems ( 1807 ) ; review by Francis Jeffrey , Edinburgh Review , XI ( Oct. 1807 ) , 214-231 ... The two lines which close the poem , • Helen grown old , no longer cold , Said , “ You to all men i prefer , " p ...
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