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 421
Mr Southey must excuse us for doubting , whether even a poet's mouth could turn these passages into good verse ; and we are afraid , the greater part of his readers will participate in our scepticism . The subject of this poem is almost ...
Mr Southey must excuse us for doubting , whether even a poet's mouth could turn these passages into good verse ; and we are afraid , the greater part of his readers will participate in our scepticism . The subject of this poem is almost ...
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In this way , it turns out , that the book is entirely composed of scraps , borrowed from the oriental tale books , and travels into the Mahometan countries , seasoned up for the English reader with some fragments of our own ballads ...
In this way , it turns out , that the book is entirely composed of scraps , borrowed from the oriental tale books , and travels into the Mahometan countries , seasoned up for the English reader with some fragments of our own ballads ...
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Ambition , pleasure , vanity , all by turns Shall lie in my bed , and keep me fresh and waking . ... and still empty , rotten and hollow talking world , where good men decay , states turn round in an endless mutability , and ftill for ...
Ambition , pleasure , vanity , all by turns Shall lie in my bed , and keep me fresh and waking . ... and still empty , rotten and hollow talking world , where good men decay , states turn round in an endless mutability , and ftill for ...
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If these volumes , which have all the benefit of the author's former popularity , turn out to be nearly as popular as the lyrical ballads -- if they sell nearly to the same extent or are quoted and imitated O + among 216 Peeins by W.
If these volumes , which have all the benefit of the author's former popularity , turn out to be nearly as popular as the lyrical ballads -- if they sell nearly to the same extent or are quoted and imitated O + among 216 Peeins by W.
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... of his imagination and affections must still shed over all his productions , and to which we shall ever turn with delight , in spite of the affectation and mysticism and prolixity , with which they are so abundantly contrasted .
... of his imagination and affections must still shed over all his productions , and to which we shall ever turn with delight , in spite of the affectation and mysticism and prolixity , with which they are so abundantly contrasted .
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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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