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 415
... it would not , perhaps , be very easy to explain ; but , that they are diffenters from the established fystems in poetry and criticism , is admitted , and proved indeed , by the whole tenor of their compofitions .
... it would not , perhaps , be very easy to explain ; but , that they are diffenters from the established fystems in poetry and criticism , is admitted , and proved indeed , by the whole tenor of their compofitions .
Page 419
Those authors appear to forget , that a'whole poem cannot be made up of striking passages , and that the sensations produced by sublimity , are never so powerful and entire , as when they are allowed to subside and revive , in a flow ...
Those authors appear to forget , that a'whole poem cannot be made up of striking passages , and that the sensations produced by sublimity , are never so powerful and entire , as when they are allowed to subside and revive , in a flow ...
Page 421
Immediately the murder of all those innocents is resolved on ; and a fturdy afraflin fent with instructions to destroy the whole family ( as T802 . Southey's Thaluba . ( as M Southey has it ) root and branch .
Immediately the murder of all those innocents is resolved on ; and a fturdy afraflin fent with instructions to destroy the whole family ( as T802 . Southey's Thaluba . ( as M Southey has it ) root and branch .
Page 422
The whole infernal band , indeed , is very feebly and heavily pourtrayed They are a set of stupid , undignified , miserable wretches , quarrelling with each other , and trembling in the prospect of inevitable de struction .
The whole infernal band , indeed , is very feebly and heavily pourtrayed They are a set of stupid , undignified , miserable wretches , quarrelling with each other , and trembling in the prospect of inevitable de struction .
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... no little cloud Breaks the whole ferene of heaven : In 1802 . Southey's Thalaba . 8C In full - orbed glory the majestic moon Rolls thro ' the dark blue depths . Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads , Like the round ocean ...
... no little cloud Breaks the whole ferene of heaven : In 1802 . Southey's Thalaba . 8C In full - orbed glory the majestic moon Rolls thro ' the dark blue depths . Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads , Like the round ocean ...
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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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