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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... and a few lines of fcripture , written out into verse from the original profe , have been found to have a very happy effect upon those readers to whom they have the recommendation of novelty . The qualities of style and imagery ...
... and a few lines of fcripture , written out into verse from the original profe , have been found to have a very happy effect upon those readers to whom they have the recommendation of novelty . The qualities of style and imagery ...
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These three last lines , Mr Southey seriously considers as the ne plus ultra of purity and pathos . The text certainly is not , by any means , fo bad as might have been expected from such a note ; though there are fome passages ...
These three last lines , Mr Southey seriously considers as the ne plus ultra of purity and pathos . The text certainly is not , by any means , fo bad as might have been expected from such a note ; though there are fome passages ...
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The two lines which close the poem , • Helen grown old , no longer cold , Said , “ You to all men i prefer , " p . 107 . are most singularly placed . At the beginning they would have been very communicative ; but at the conclusion they ...
The two lines which close the poem , • Helen grown old , no longer cold , Said , “ You to all men i prefer , " p . 107 . are most singularly placed . At the beginning they would have been very communicative ; but at the conclusion they ...
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This , it must be confessed , is Silly Sooth ' in good earnest , The three last lines seem to be downright raving . By 220 Poems by W. Wordsworth Oct. By and by , we have a piece of namby - pamby to the Small Celandine , which we ...
This , it must be confessed , is Silly Sooth ' in good earnest , The three last lines seem to be downright raving . By 220 Poems by W. Wordsworth Oct. By and by , we have a piece of namby - pamby to the Small Celandine , which we ...
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I. 73 The two last lines seem to be utterly without meaning ; at least we have no sort of conception in what sense Duty can be said to keep the old skies fresh , and the stars from wrong . The next piece , entitled The Beggars ...
I. 73 The two last lines seem to be utterly without meaning ; at least we have no sort of conception in what sense Duty can be said to keep the old skies fresh , and the stars from wrong . The next piece , entitled The Beggars ...
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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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