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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... works to produce in support of their precenlions . The catholic Poetical church , too , has worked but few miracles since the first ages of its establishment ; and has been more prolific , for a long time , of Doctors , than of ...
... works to produce in support of their precenlions . The catholic Poetical church , too , has worked but few miracles since the first ages of its establishment ; and has been more prolific , for a long time , of Doctors , than of ...
Page 416
... that there are pala sages in all poems , that can neither be pathetic nor sublime ; and that , on these occasions , a neglect of the embellishments of language is very apt to produce absolute meanness and infipidity .
... that there are pala sages in all poems , that can neither be pathetic nor sublime ; and that , on these occasions , a neglect of the embellishments of language is very apt to produce absolute meanness and infipidity .
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... that is produced by this unccasing summons to admiration , or of the compassion which is excited by the spectacle of these E 3 eternal 7.0 Southey's Thalabá . C & 1802 Southey's Thalaba : 418 EDINBURGH REVIEW The Romantics Reviewed.
... that is produced by this unccasing summons to admiration , or of the compassion which is excited by the spectacle of these E 3 eternal 7.0 Southey's Thalabá . C & 1802 Southey's Thalaba : 418 EDINBURGH REVIEW The Romantics Reviewed.
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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 ...
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There is not a prodigy , accordingly , or a description , for which he does not Fairly produce his vouchers , and generally lays before his readers the whole original paffage from which his imitation has been taken .
There is not a prodigy , accordingly , or a description , for which he does not Fairly produce his vouchers , and generally lays before his readers the whole original paffage from which his imitation has been taken .
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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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