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 students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included,...
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to...
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...
First published in 1971. This collection of contemporary reviews of the five major English Romantic poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats and S...
