ABSTRACT

First 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.

Professor 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.

This title includes annotations to explain allusions to contemporary events and persons and to translate foreign words and phrases. This title will be of great interest to students of English literature.

chapter

Introduction

part III|112 pages

Byron

chapter |9 pages

Review of Byron's ‘Giaour’

chapter |4 pages

Review of Byron's ‘Corsair’

chapter |7 pages

Reviews of Byron's ‘Manfred’

chapter |5 pages

Review of Byron's ‘Beppo’

chapter |5 pages

Review of Byron's ‘Age of Bronze’

part IV|81 pages

Keats

part V|51 pages

Shelley

chapter |6 pages

Reviews of Shelley's ‘Alastor’

chapter |7 pages

Review of Shelley's ‘The Cenci’

chapter |2 pages

Review of Sbelief's ‘Queen Mab’

chapter |2 pages

Review of Shelley's ‘Adonais’