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 421
... turn thefe paffages into good verfe ; and we are afraid , the greater part of his readers will participate in our fcepticism . The fubject of this poem is almost as ill chofen as the diction ; and the conduct of the fable as diforderly ...
... turn thefe paffages into good verfe ; and we are afraid , the greater part of his readers will participate in our fcepticism . The fubject of this poem is almost as ill chofen as the diction ; and the conduct of the fable as diforderly ...
Page 422
... turns out , that the book is entirely com- pofed of fcraps , borrowed from the oriental tale books , and tra- vels into the Mahometan countries , feafoned up for the English reader with fome fragments of our own ballads , and threds of ...
... turns out , that the book is entirely com- pofed of fcraps , borrowed from the oriental tale books , and tra- vels into the Mahometan countries , feafoned up for the English reader with fome fragments of our own ballads , and threds of ...
Page 428
... turns Shall lie in my bed , and keep me fresh and waking . ' p . 26 . Even old Sir Walter gives the following advice ... turn round in an endlefs mutability , and ftill for the worfe , nothing is at a flay , nothing abides , but vanity ...
... turns Shall lie in my bed , and keep me fresh and waking . ' p . 26 . Even old Sir Walter gives the following advice ... turn round in an endlefs mutability , and ftill for the worfe , nothing is at a flay , nothing abides , but vanity ...
Page 430
... turn out to be nearly as popular as the lyrical ballads -- if they sell nearly to the same extent or are quoted and imitated 04 among 216 Poems by W. Wordsworth . Oct. among half as many individuals , we shall admit that Mr Words- worth ...
... turn out to be nearly as popular as the lyrical ballads -- if they sell nearly to the same extent or are quoted and imitated 04 among 216 Poems by W. Wordsworth . Oct. among half as many individuals , we shall admit that Mr Words- worth ...
Page 440
... turn with delight , in spite of the affectation and mysticism and prolixity , with which they are so abundantly contrasted . Long habits of seclusion , and an excessive ambition of origi- nality , can alone account for the disproportion ...
... turn with delight , in spite of the affectation and mysticism and prolixity , with which they are so abundantly contrasted . Long habits of seclusion , and an excessive ambition of origi- nality , can alone account for the disproportion ...
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