Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: First published in 1969. This study of literary reviewing in the early nineteenth century is concerned with contemporary criticism of the works of the major Romantic poets – Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats – and of seven other notable Romantic writers including Hazlitt, Lamb and Scott...read more

Product Description: The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.

Product Description: The title might sound specialized, but, as I argue throughout, psychology is Wordsworth's central interest ("the main region of my song") and provides an entrance into all his work, as well as a way of bringing it all together. Wordsworth is arguably one of the three greatest poets ever to have written in English--not only was he a great poetic artist but he was also a fascinating thinker, from his social psycholgy to his psychology of Vision, all of which are dealt with in the book...read more

A critical study of the poet's most enduring works and a general background of his life and artistic career

This is more than an introduction to poetry text, but is uniquely designed to be self-contained and self-educational.It begins with five poems representing five kinds of poetry from which almost all the examples throughout the text are taken, and these five poems receive brief but complete (as far as they go) analyses in the appendix. Unlike most such introductory texts, moreover, Inside Poetry Out keeps to practical discussions of poetry. No information is given merely for the sake of information. The book is built on the premise that the better you understand a poem the more you will enjoy it.

Product Description: Tracing the influence of Aristotle on literary criticism (both ancient and modern), the author analyzes such basic tenets as mimesis, universality, and morality in the theory of Horace, Longinus, Sir Philip Sidney, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, and others...read more

Sixty-eight critical reviews from early-nineteenth-century periodicals provide representative contemporaneous analyses, interpretations, and assessments of the major works and poetic achievements of the five leading English Romantic poets