Romantic Bards and British Reviewers - 9781138193000

Taylor & Francis

Romantic Bards and British ReviewersA Selected Edition of Contemporary Reviews of the Works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats and Shelley\nAuthor(s): John O. Hayden\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138193000, 978-1138193000\nSynopsis\nFirst published in 1971. This collection of contemporary reviews of the five major English Romantic poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats and Shelley makes available the critical documents of a great period of literature and literary reviewing. \n\nProfessor Hayden has selected sixty-eight reviews in which twenty-six periodicals are represented, ranging from the powerful quarterlies and the monthly reviews to the newly established weeklies and the fashionable ladies magazines. The reviews give an insight into the Romantic period in England, its literature, critical values, and general interests. \n\nThis title includes annotations to explain allusions to contemporary even.