Romantic bards and British reviewers: A selected edition of the contemporary reviews of the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats and Shelley;

This collection of sixty-eight reviews (from twenty-six periodicals) of the five major English Romantic Poets provides a missing link in the history of Literary Criticism. Rarely has any similar collection gone beyond the two or three major reviewing periodicals, and reviewing was far more extensive and vigorous than such limited selections would suggest. But more: the editor, who is the recognized authority in the field, has aimed to represent both the poets and the Reviews. The text, moreover, has been annotated.