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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Part A: The Lake Poets - Volume II Donald H. Reiman ... It had also the right Whig member of Parliament ignored almost every poet of political and social bias to appeal from 1806 until 1816 , when he genius who appeared during its to a ...
Part A: The Lake Poets - Volume II Donald H. Reiman ... It had also the right Whig member of Parliament ignored almost every poet of political and social bias to appeal from 1806 until 1816 , when he genius who appeared during its to a ...
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This review , the opening salvo of Jeffrey's unrelenting attack upon the " Lake Poets , " exhibits in its first sentence the perspective ... like religion , are established and immutable ; to question the poetic past is to be apostate .
This review , the opening salvo of Jeffrey's unrelenting attack upon the " Lake Poets , " exhibits in its first sentence the perspective ... like religion , are established and immutable ; to question the poetic past is to be apostate .
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That our new poets have abandoned the old models , may certainly be admitted ; but we have not been able to discover that they have yet created any models of their own ; and are very much inclined to call in question the worthiness of ...
That our new poets have abandoned the old models , may certainly be admitted ; but we have not been able to discover that they have yet created any models of their own ; and are very much inclined to call in question the worthiness of ...
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There is nothing so ridiculous ( at least for a poet ) as to fail in great attempts . ... It would be going too far , certainly , to maintain , that our modern poets bave never succeeded in their persevering endeavours at elevation and ...
There is nothing so ridiculous ( at least for a poet ) as to fail in great attempts . ... It would be going too far , certainly , to maintain , that our modern poets bave never succeeded in their persevering endeavours at elevation and ...
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Part A: The Lake Poets - Volume II Donald H. Reiman ... The poet , leaving this interesting person , falls in with two ragged boys at play , and like that wonian's face as gold is like to gold . ' Here is the conclusion of this ...
Part A: The Lake Poets - Volume II Donald H. Reiman ... The poet , leaving this interesting person , falls in with two ragged boys at play , and like that wonian's face as gold is like to gold . ' Here is the conclusion of this ...
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