The history of English critical journals has not yet been adequately
written. The following introduction offers a rapid survey of the
subject, compiled principally from the sources indicated in the
bibliographical list. I am indebted to Professor Felix E. Schelling of
the University of Pennsylvania, and to Dr. Robert Ellis Thompson and
Professor Albert H. Smyth of the Philadelphia Central High School for
many suggestions that have been of value in writing the introduction.
Dr. Edward Z. Davis examined at my request certain pamphlets in the
British Museum that threw additional light upon the history of the early
reviews. Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach and Professor J.H. Moffatt read the proofs
of the introduction and notes respectively, and suggested several
noteworthy improvements.
J.L.H.
CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL,
PHILADELPHIA.
CONTENTS
Preface vii
Introduction xiii
Bibliography lvi
REVIEWS
GRAY Odes (_Monthly Review_) 1
GOLDSMITH The Traveller (_Critical Review_) 5
COWPER Poems, 1782 (_Critical Review_) 10
BURNS Poems, 1786 (_Edinburgh Magazine_) 13
Poems, 1786 (_Critical Review_) 15
WORDSWORTH Descriptive Sketches (_Monthly Review_) 16
An Evening Walk (_Monthly Review_) 19
Lyrical Ballads (_Critical Review_) 20
Poems, 1807 (_Edinburgh Review_) 24
COLERIDGE Christabel (_Edinburgh Review_) 47
SOUTHEY Madoc (_Monthly Review_) 60
LAMB Blank Verse (_Monthly Review_) 65
Album Verses (_Literary Gazette_) 66
LANDOR Gebir (_British Critic_) 68
Gebir (_Monthly Review_) 69
SCOTT Marmion (_Edinburgh Review_) 70
BYRON Hours of Idleness (_Edinburgh Review_) 94
Childe Harold (_Christian Observer_) 101
SHELLEY Alastor (_Monthly Review_) 115
The Cenci (_London Magazine_) 116
Adonais (_Literary Gazette_) 129
KEATS Endymion (_Quarterly Review_) 135
Endymion (_Blackwood's Magazine_) 141
TENNYSON Timbuctoo (_Athenaeum_) 151
Poems, 1833 (_Quarterly Review_) 152
The Princess (_Literary Gazette_) 176
BROWNING Paracelsus (_Athenaeum_) 187
Sordello (_Monthly Review_) 188
Men and Women (_Saturday Review_) 189
Notes 197
Index 223
INTRODUCTION
To the modern reader, with an abundance of periodicals of all sorts and
upon all subjects at hand, it seems hardly possible that this wealth of
ephemeral literature was virtually developed within the past two
centuries.
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