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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... tion explosion " of the early nineteenth century , which made impossible the Renaissance ideal of virtuosity in several fields , called forth general reviews and magazines , just as the information explosion of our time , which makes ...
... tion explosion " of the early nineteenth century , which made impossible the Renaissance ideal of virtuosity in several fields , called forth general reviews and magazines , just as the information explosion of our time , which makes ...
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... tion of great fimplicity and familiarity of language . They dif dain to make ufe of the common poetical phrafeology , or to ennoble their diction by a felection of fine or dignified expref- fions . There would be too much art in this ...
... tion of great fimplicity and familiarity of language . They dif dain to make ufe of the common poetical phrafeology , or to ennoble their diction by a felection of fine or dignified expref- fions . There would be too much art in this ...
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... tion . After all this , it may not be very eafy to say how we are to find him out to be a low man , or what marks can remain of the ordinary language of converfation in the inferior orders of fociety . If there be any phrafes that are ...
... tion . After all this , it may not be very eafy to say how we are to find him out to be a low man , or what marks can remain of the ordinary language of converfation in the inferior orders of fociety . If there be any phrafes that are ...
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... tion of his enemies . From this little sketch of the ftory , our readers will eafily per- ceive , that it confifts altogether of the moft wild and extrava- gant fictions , and openly fets nature and probability at defiance . In its ...
... tion of his enemies . From this little sketch of the ftory , our readers will eafily per- ceive , that it confifts altogether of the moft wild and extrava- gant fictions , and openly fets nature and probability at defiance . In its ...
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... tion , and ftriking combination . We do not remember any poem , indeed , that prefents , throughout , a greater number of lively images , or could afford fo many fubjects for the pencil . The introductory lines have a certain folemn and ...
... tion , and ftriking combination . We do not remember any poem , indeed , that prefents , throughout , a greater number of lively images , or could afford fo many fubjects for the pencil . The introductory lines have a certain folemn and ...
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